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.

Why Work?

Check out something from Mark Levin.
You won't like it, but it does explain the "why" of some things going on that we all know are not good for anyone involved.

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.

Sobering Reality

This gets a tip o' the hat to the incomparable Jerry Pournelle, whose site linked to the article.

Despair is a Sin. But ....

One stark and sobering way to frame the crisis is this: if the United States government were to nationalize (in other words, steal) every penny of private wealth accumulated by America’s citizens since the nation’s founding 235 years ago, the government would remain totally bankrupt.

And if that doesn't make you pause, I don't know what will.

Today's Best Link

Sometimes you wish you could take credit for something that someone else did. Yeah, it's not right, but it happens. This is one such case.
Check out "An Open Letter to the Evil Tyrants in Washington". I don't think she believes in nuances or being subtle. Fine by me.

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?

Should We Call It 'ClimateGate'' or ''ClimateQuiddick'?

This is really getting interesting. And now we are starting to see more and more clearly the links, the connect-the-dots connections between the AGW Fraudsters and their co-conspirators in the LameStreamMedia. And, now, the connections into the Whte House.

Check this one out. While doing so, think about why this is not being put front page above the fold in the major newspapers in the U.S. The TV networks you already know about - the connections between Immelt at GE, GE to NBC and its cousins, and the so-called 'Green Energy' crap that GE hopes to have us required to buy from them. Made possible by Ubama's cronies. It's an ugly story, and we're not to the bottom of the manure pile yet.

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.

Too Funny!

How about titling it ''Dope and Chains''? Or is that an invite to a Ted Kennedy party?

Credit for the story goes to NewsBusters at this site

We don't know, yet, who gets credited with the artwork.

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!!????

As the in the days of Noah ...

Been a while since this site got updated. Not for lack of material, that much is certain. Can you believe some of the nonsense going around? Amazing. And that is not said in an approving way either.

Here's an example, on of the grosser ones.
Recall how the Lamestream Media has been beating the drum for recognition of homosexual ''marriage'', with all the rights and privleges thereunto pertaining, including such things as adoption? Sure you have. We've been solemnly assure by all of the ''right'' people that opposition to such is evidence of a 'hate crime', or ''homophobia'' or such other nonsenscial concatenation of sounds. Opponents or even doubters of these measures are shouted down by the self-proclaimed 'tolerant''.
And then we see the fruits of the efforts, and it's not a pretty picture, as the doubters had predicted. Here's an example. An employee of Duke University just got busted for trying to pimp off his 5-year-old adopted son over the Internet. Claims he'd already molested the child.
Yes, he's a homosexual activist (I loathe and despise the advertising term ''gay'', it's a lie). Yes he has a ''partner''. And he has been on staff at Duke since 1999. Aren't you proud?
Read about it here, to start.

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?

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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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.

Barney Frank, Part 2 of Many

Some members of the Kakistocracy deserve to be named to the All-Star team. Barney Frank is one of those. We could, and may well, devote many a post to this creep and to the cloud of creeps around him, but not today.
At any rate, once in a while, someone else puts out something that is so good, you can't top it and instead need to give it wider play. Click on this and you will see what I mean.