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.

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.

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'.

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

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.

Honorable Mention of the Day --- The Pie Fascists of Pennsylvania

Hard to imagine that this is the same nation that dumped British Tea in a harbor, opposed the Stamp Act, stormed the beaches of Normandy, won at Iwo Jima, made the Inchon landings, landed on the moon, and made high sounding speeches on freedom and dignity.
Reduced to petty bureaucrats forbidding the selling of home-baked pies at a church.

Read it. And weep for the freedoms we once had.

Another Assault, this Time Against the Internet, Usual Kakistocrats

Lousy that stories like this have to come out of Canada. Guess that the inbred liberal fascists at the ABC-CBS-NBC-CNN-MSNBC-NY Times-Washington Post-CSM-McClatchy-Gannett can't be bothered or are not particularly interested.
Headline pretty well says it: ''BIG Brother” OBAMA Coming After The INTERNET!
Think I'm just scare-mongering? You can read the working draft of the bills here.
And some of the commentary here.
One distinguishing characteristic of a totalitarian state is, well, they really do intend to be TOTALLY in charge. Part of what the term means, actually. And to make that work, there has to be a state monopoly, or at least utter control, of the communications. Divide and rule, subdivide and rule more completely, fragment and rule absolutely. Don't let the subjects know that they aren't alone. Let them believe the only person with dangerous heretical ideas is them, make them keep their heads down. Classify other ideas as ''hate speech'' or the like.
Obama and his like are part of a long tradition going back as far as human history.

Honorable Mention from the UK

Well, you can't do much better than this for an example of idiocy. Fishermen thrown into a hard-core prison for the ''crime'' of fishing without the blessing of the unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats of the EU.
Lest you think that that the idiocies of the EU are a far-off mess, and let those folks stew in their own juices, think again. The EU is one of those wished-for models of Transnational Progressivism that is so beloved by some of our own home-grown fascisti. More to the point, it is the model for the North American Union that our ''progressives'', the Bilderberger types love so much.
One-World-Government gets closer all the time. And so, inevitably, there will be some casualties as we serfs are taught to tug on our forelocks as our ''betters'' tell us how to live.

Today's Entry 5 April obersturmbanfuhrer Geithner updated the 6th

Go read the Constitution again. Should be no trouble locating a copy, there does not seem to be a great deal of interest in it. Certainly not in Washington. Certainly not among those near the White House.
Odd, I thought the US was a nation ruled by law and with the government highly restricted as to scope and power, with accountability and little things like 'checks and balances'. An obsolete concept, evidently.
Comes now one Tim Geithner. I do not recall being asked to vote for him. Do you? Probably not. But he has now, in as naked a seizure of power as we've seen in a while, perhaps since the Beer Hall Putsch (look it up), arrogated upon himself the authority to remove banking officials who have somehow offended his tender sensibilities.
Read about it here. Or here.
A shame, this was such a nice country once. Less so, daily.

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Today's Mention -- Rep. John Larson

Ronald Reagan was famous for, among other things, noting the citizens have a government, not the other way around. Some people are too stupid, or power-drunk, to have paid attention to that. Or to little thinks like the 8th, 9th, and 10th Amendments tot he U. S. Constitution. Those are some parts of that document that demand limited government. And are widely ignored by both major parties and virtually every judge in the land.

Here's another example. Another nanny-stater, another liberal fascist. Care to guess the party?
Worse yet, one with power. As in, House Democratic Conference Chairman John Larson (D-Conn.). The people of Connecticut have proven quite often their preference for liars, knaves, and traitorous creeps in their choices to send off to Washington (and the statehouse as well).

This blithering idiot, this nincompoop, this dolt with delusions of grandeur and importance has taken yet another step in thrusting the nation deeper into tyranny. He has decided that it is up to the (federal) government to ''... Compel Consumers to Use Alternative Energy''. Odd, a thorough reading of the powers granted to the federal government in that Constitution does not reveal ANY grant of power to do this.

This is a naked power grab by another liberal fascist. And YOU pay this bum's salary!
FIRE him!!

More on the Democrat Roots of the Financial Mess

View this, while it is still available.

Why are Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank not in prison?

A New Low -- Banning Farmer's Markets??!?!?!

There is no nice way to put this: Obama and, it seems, ALL of the louts and goons who support him are fascisti in the most technically correct way. No, they don't wave banners with the swastika (or the hammer and sickle). Yet. But the more I see, the more that I see a bunch that would have supported Mao's 'Great Leap Forward', Stalin's war against the kulaks, or Benny Mussolini's campaigns.

Case in point: there is now a proposal, a serious one it seems to, well, let me quote a better writer than I am.

Change We Can Believe In: How About the End of Farmers Markets? Say Hello to H.R. 875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009

What this will do is force anyone who produces food of any kind, and then transports it to a different location for sale, to register with a new federal agency called the “Food Safety Administration.” Even growers who sell just fruit and/or vegetables at farmers markets would not only have to register, but they would be subject inspections by federal agents of their property and all records related to food production. The frequency of these inspections will be determined by the whim of the Food Safety Administration. Mandatory “safety” records would have to be kept. Anyone who fails to register and comply with all of this nonsense could be facing a fine of up to $1,000,000 per violation.

Neat, huh?

By some accounts, this could outlaw the hot-dog salesman, the pizza delivery, much else.

Let's play 'Guess The Party''!!
Ok, no fair. The author of this piece of asinine fascism is one Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-CT. You knew it would be a Democrat, didn't you? And you are not surprised, are you, that this chunk of human detritus originates from Connecticut? I mean really.

Tell me again why we fought against Hitler and Mussolini. It would appear that they won.

Honorable Mention of 1 March 2009 The E.P.A.

Nincompoops.
Blatherskites.
Fascists (or is that fascisti ?)
Fools.
Meddling dolts.

Yep, that pretty well describes the EPA under the best of circumstances.

Now, get this. They have presumed the power to regulate the dust that comes about when farmers plow the fields that they thought were their own. One version of the story is here.

Shut down the EPA! Close it down! This is not, and never has been, an operation whose existence is to be found within the grant of powers of the US constitution. Bluntly, it's an illegal agency. Not just stupid, not just populated by unaccountable bureaucrats who answer to no citizen, but an operation funded by taxes, and whose very existence is a violation of the Constitution.

Close it down!