The Call of the Left: Darkness to Darkness….

They come for the children...

When killing a tree, you do not hack at the limbs. You go for the roots. You poison the soil.  So that the tree drinks deeply from foul waters, and the toxin is in every leaf, potent in every piece of fruit.Thus when you seek to destroy a people, a nation, you seek to control the youth, the culture and education. You dominate the narrative. You dishonor the sovereignty of an individual’s soul and mind and inculcate him with visions alien to his heart, to his nature. You rip the gift of free will right out of the hands of the child of God. But who? Who is susceptible? What soil can most easily be saturated with poison, when is a tree most vulnerable? Why did some succumb to the nihilism and utter hypocrisy of the sixties, and some not? Why now do we watch the West writhe in self-loathing, contorting to postures of subservience to inferior cultures, self-flagellating with the barbed whip of PC?

It has been my experience and observation that the left’s approach, their outreach, was, and remains, calibrated to the rhythm of pain found in every human heart.  It’s overtures are meant to, almost symbiotically , mesh with the emotional travail that every human soul must, inevitably,  persevere through. It seems almost as if the lure is most seductive for those most uncomfortable, most dissatisfied with their human-ness. The left calls to those who are emotionally crippled as darkness calls to darkness, sadness to sadness, despair to despair. It is a siren call that is unheard by those of sound mind and spirit, it’s invitation to self-destruction doesn’t resonate with humans who are exuberant in their living, cognizant of the genius God invested in their creation, determined to plumb the depth of every treasure granted man in spirit, in mind , and in the bounty of the earth. A human being such as that will find no lure in what the cultural left offers.

But during the sixties there was utilized an inestimably effective system by which to launch the cultural missiles used to achieve the society we now see rotting around us. Rock & Roll; an instrument of cultural destruction, a daisy cutter that would serve as bunker busters inside every American family’s home, shredding morals and ethics, decency and normalcy, like shrapnel through flesh.

Self loathing

There was no lie that couldn’t sound like the most profound wisdom when ushered in on the hypnotic strains of the Moody Blues, no perversion more delicately offered when tendered by the quixotic Pink Floyd or Spirit. There was no anger that failed to ignite when roused by that bitch rock and roll, no tradition that couldn’t be butchered with the collective shrill ululations of the Rolling Stones or the innocuous melodies of the Beatles. Nothing was sacred. Not family. Not God. Not country. Not life. And that is how the devil works. He comes in looking pretty, sounding good, zealous with energy. He lies. He nurtures pain with promises of panaceas. And he more than delivers, however, it is very much to the devil’s advantage that humans are not in the least careful in what they wish for, lust for, sell their souls for…

If there is no god, and life has no value and human beings are execrable creatures, if history is revised and language re-framed in order that all that is sacred and honorable is stripped from consciousness- well, then you achieve what we see around us now, generations so removed from a moral mooring, so removed from reality that depraved indifference is fast becoming the norm rather than the rare psychopathic condition it once was. Having once been equally depraved, remembering the hardness of heart, my embrace of cynicism, my idiotic false sense of power that nihilism deceives with, as if by aligning yourself with death, death will then spare you. Of course, all of that accompanied by the visceral cadence of the music seemingly written to specifically imbue the spiritual sinews of our very souls with it’s ever-so danceable suicidal rhythm.

How long before something very elemental in the human soul protests, says; “no more.” Cause certainly there must be a response to this seemingly inexorable suicidal march the West is determined to execute in goose step obedience to the left. If there was an enemy of man, a jealous, vengeful, cunning enemy, he would devise such a degrading demise for our species. Because here is the thing. I have always found human beings to be amazing creatures. As a concept. I have speculated on who we would be had we not fallen. And yes, I am now quite willing to describe our condition exactly as that. Because certainly not a large number of us has lived up to the heights we were designed for. And, most certainly, the left and it’s legions work to ensure that we never do.

To be continued….

Hating Christians, Hating God

It’s tiresome and repetitive and yet Hollywood just can not stop themselves from grinding that ax deeper. Hating Christians ought to have far exceeded it’s shelf life, but Hollywood is mired in an anachronistic world of pagan earth worship. The sages of that nether world remind me of the priests that attended kings as interpreters of signs and portents, wringing prophecy out of rat’s asses, substituting dire frenzy for wise counsel. Of which neither they, or the priests of Hollywood, have to impart. And their latest attempt to paint the villain with a coat of Christianity is also their latest failure.

Sympathy for the Devil

Speaking to CNN recently about the new thriller about an openly atheist hero and a Christian Villain, he compared the film to “Brokeback Mountain,” a film which he feels made people more accepting of the gay community.
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Atheists hold a valid point of view according to Chapman who is urging Christians and all believers to see the new film.

“There are a lot of us, we are thinking people we care about many of the same issues as believers, and yet we are rarely heard and widely hated,” says Chapman.

He concluded: “I hope atheists who are still in the closet will take heart from the film and think. I am not alone”

(Source)

Bang your head on the ground until infinity, pour blood on clay idols (or sell the blood of slain infants in 2011 Babylon), worship the earth as earnestly as you want – only evil or silence will answer. Whatever goodness or wisdom atheists may have, is borrowed. They don’t own it and Hollywood can not bestow it. It’s called grace. God has a habit of imparting it and we all are it’s benefactors, or we’d be the dust we damn well ought to be given the never ending stream of insults issuing from us to God. Atheists constantly attempt to whitewash themselves using the paint of a moral code directly attributable to the God that they reject. Christians who are “villains” are acting outside of that moral code, not in accord with it. In other words, they are behaving in an UN-christian manner and do not represent the faith.

And ‘Christian’ is a useless word anymore, since so many pretenders, leftists and weak willed Christians have absolutely defiled “the Brand’. But God was there before any Christian existed and His Word is eternal. It is He and that Word which gives witness to who He is, instructs us in how we might actually live a life – soul intact – forever,and finally,He judges us. And the choice, of course, is ours. The fact that judgment is inevitable doesn’t abrogate the freedom with which we choose the state of soul we are in when we finally meet it. And disbelieving it all doesn’t forestall it’s coming.

And then there are those who truly believe they will defeat God and all his nasty Christians. Such as Lucifer. In modern times, the name Saul Alinsky – whose widely studied manifesto is dedicated to “the first rebel; Lucifer ” – comes to mind. Certainly an apprentice to the devil par excellence and one of the key choreographers whose work is used so adroitly by the present powers that be.

Then God Gave Them Up

I have been listening to a preacher who teaches that if man does not grasp how hideous sin is to God, that we can not begin to measure the magnanimous character of His love. A parent understands this on a vastly smaller scale. The love for your child covers a multitude of their sins. Fortunately, my children have never tested my love, my patience, certainly – love, that has never wavered. But I ran into this link, this atrocious nauseating photo essay depicting a vile and blasphemous “celebration” of Easter… and I had to acknowledge that if one of my children could countenance this filth, I would mourn them as if they had died, because certainly, their spirit is dead. Any human being who could abide the degradation that is depicted has been reduced into a lesser being, has become exactly what that old devil Lucifer has always argued that the human race actually is; unworthy, rapacious, lustful, fleshy louts with absolutely no right to God’s grace, His love, His forgiveness. Lucifer’s whole point in despising God is because God preferred us, human beings, to him. That God adopted us, made us His children. Lucifer has ever been about proving to God that we are unworthy. This orgy would certainly seem to affirm that.

And yet, God could forgive that, would forgive even that, if any of these ‘celebrants’, who are His children, actually repented**. And that forgiveness indeed is far more magnanimous than a mere human heart could conjure.

It is tragic how denigrated language has become where words like repent, sin, depravity and God, grace, forgiveness are of no import. More to the point, actually, what is appalling is the growing prevalence of hardened hearts that can no longer measure sin, hearts whose calibration is so skewed that the atrocities that increasingly pass before our eyes are impotent to repel us or shame us. But then God quite clearly promised that He would give man over to his lusts. And so he has. And that is the frightening part. God gives mankind over to the desires of their hearts and the raw, God-less heart of man knows only the most foul darkness and deceit. The fact that what is depicted in this photo essay was witnessed by children with parental permission attests to that.

And God says we have no excuse. Were a man’s heart to seek truth, God provides abundant proof of who He is.

18 God’s anger is revealed from heaven against all the sin and evil of the people whose evil ways prevent the truth from being known. 19God punishes them, because what can be known about God is plain to them, for God himself made it plain. 20Ever since God created the world, his invisible qualities, both his eternal power and his divine nature, have been clearly seen; they are perceived in the things that God has made. So those people have no excuse at all! 21They know God, but they do not give him the honour that belongs to him, nor do they thank him. Instead, their thoughts have become complete nonsense, and their empty minds are filled with darkness. 22They say they are wise, but they are fools; 23instead of worshipping the immortal God, they worship images made to look like mortal human beings or birds or animals or reptiles. Romans 1:18-23

and…

1 The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. 2 Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. 3 There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. 4 Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, 5 which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. 6 Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat. Psalm 19

And there we come to what so few understand. It is something I think I have always known, but now the knowing of it weighs on me. What does the world look like, how do human beings behave when God finally removes His grace? For it is manifest in the simplest things we so easily dismiss; the breeze through spring branches, the color of the sky after a storm, the savor of home cooking, the haven of home and family – music, dance, science, art, man’s genius, this earth that man now thinks he owns – all of it we use by God’s grace. By His permission. The genius of a 1000 Stephen Hawkings has yet to create a thought that hadn’t already been owned by God. We are here by grace and all that we hold to be beauty and honor and love are but wispy wavering reflections of what God practices in the Kingdom He owns. Yet He has for centuries (our time) shared His bounty with us.

Until He doesn’t.

With caution I present this link. Be forewarned it is repellent beyond speaking. It is depravity.

And here is an alternative to the link. Romans 1. It describes the debauchery the link’s images record. It is eerie how old evil is, yet it’s face never changes. It invents nothing new, though those who would defend this believe themselves to be evolved. No, the link need not be visited at all, but Scripture has described it accurately.

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know God’s decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Though evil has always been with us, it never was welcomed, feted and honored as it is today. And there is only one character in this story whose gift is life and whose Word is true. This is a time of choosing whom you will serve.

**Repent. Oh my! What a anachronistic blip of a word to slip in there. Repent: To turn away from sin. To be done with it. To abhor in your very soul the spit you hurled in God’s face with every ungrateful breath you took before He was kind enough to offer to change your mind. By the way, it’s a supernatural process that comes from a regenerated heart. It can’t be faked. For long.

Men Make Pathetic Gods

Man, as God, is a debacle. That’s all I can conclude as I watch this wicked dance of fools vying for power. The war for the ultimate throne and the ultimate Kingdom has raged since recorded history. It is what it is. The war between God and Lucifer. Good and Evil. Light and Dark.The ideologies, political and cultural systems that have emerged over time have always reflected that battle. And a portion of that battle now rages center stage in America.

But, what I ponder a lot is this ‘man-as-God’ fallacy, the fatal flaw in all totalitarian systems it seems. For one thing, as Man-God goes about expanding the reach of his purloined divinity, he starts devouring his own. Because even though man has deemed himself to be superior to God and to be the only permitted authority on earth, he has simultaneously pronounced that his own species is earth’s most pernicious occupant; alternately brilliant enough to destroy the planet, but too stupid to stop himself.

Nihilism, this vicious disdain for one’s own humanity, resulting in a continual decimation and extirpation of the potency of the human creation,is salient in leftism and matches pretty much the disdain Lucifer reportedly held for human kind.

Lucifer’s contention has always been that God had no right to deem man higher than angels when man is such a flawed and fallible creature. Satan stomped his foot, or something like that and was promptly expelled from heaven, and all his rebels with him. But he has been going about proving his point ever since. And the ideology of the left is surely crafted to serve his mssion. As opposed to the Judeo-Christian’s contention that we are children of God, the left caricatures us as everything from apes to parasites. And certainly that is one way to abdicate all moral responsibility. Just claim you are creatures incapable of holding a course aimed at true north and thus grant yourself forgiveness. And then castigate all those who reflect your moral turpitude back to you as wayward troglodytes clinging to useless gods.

Yet, even though the left contends that humanity is beyond depraved and humans ought to be herded from cradle to grave, mysteriously, only this very same flawed human creature can fix it. I mean, really, if I had such a low opinion of human kind, I’d be looking for a savior superior to us, not one of us. However, as it always turns out, there exist certain men who consider themselves qualified to usurp god.  Unfortunately, they are the men currently in power in this much besieged nation.

To be continued…

I Wanted to Speak To A Child….

I saw a young boy ride up to the local war memorial on his bike, jump off and sprint to the several plaques arranged along this area of the riverfront. What was he looking for? What name did he think he would find? It was so unusual a sight, come to think of it, when most youth today are lethargic and detached. They slouch along with resentful bored faces, removed and unwelcoming. But this kid was animated and acted with purpose as he went from memorial to memorial looking for a name. And I was quite tempted to ask him who he hoped to find. But this is 2010, on the eve of 2011 and the world has become such, that when an adult stranger is seen talking to a child, the worse thoughts are put forth, the ugliest suspicions aroused. Worse, a kid these days can cast the most vile accusations and an adult can do little about it.

And it ought not be that way. Sexual deviancy used to be the rarity.  Society would not tolerate it and the law quickly punished transgressors. Men and women were not saturated with sexual imagery from childhood on nor were they encouraged to indulge their animal appetites as if it were their right.

The unthinkable has, however, become not only thinkable, but somehow normalized. It is not the pervert who is ostracized today, but the person crying for a return of the moral values that once ejected such freaks to the outskirts of society, if not into a prison cell or grave. So now, somehow, we who have no twisted sexual appetites must limit our actions, monitor our behavior, lest we be mistaken for the increasingly common sexual predator.  Similarly, air travelers must be groped because we have become a society that “tolerates” the evil of a twisted islamic ideology, much like we have become one who tolerates the pedophile and sexual deviancy of all manner and expression.. I can think of no more apt description of such a people as we have become than one given in scripture;

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Isaiah 5:20

And I could go on, but I just wanted to express the sadness I feel when the occasion arises to speak to a child, it is marred by the caution that to do so in today’s twisted world is a risk.

The Luxury of “Ordinary” is Gone…

As I sit at my desk, performing my tasks on this winter’s day, I am haunted by thoughts of the ordinary. That which is now considered ordinary, may soon become rare. I listen to the crusty grinding of the slowly progressing garbage truck and I am reminded of my fears that a village as small as this will be unable to survive the blight of Obamunism. When simple ordinary services can no longer be rendered. When the threatened tax on mileage or exorbitant penalties for distances driven make rural living beyond the grasp of most..The men in this present government are like ogres with scythes, ready to lay low America’s rural areas as they herd everyone to their damnable cities.

I spike up the heat for a long shower, throw some coffee on to brew and listen to the morning diatribe on the radio. All exceedingly ordinary activities, and all threatened by Obama. From onerous energy restrictions, to the anticipated astronomical leap in food costs, to suppression of speech; every aspect of my every day is darkened by the cloud that Obama has ushered in over the land.

My home faces the river, a view that gives me continuous contentment. Barges loaded fat and cumbersome with heaps of black coal are a frequent and welcome sight. Low to the water, weighted with bounty from the earth- because that is what fuel is. Bounty. One does not live well without affordable and convenient energy. I wonder what those river captains in those tugs think as they watch their barges loaded, as they push tons of mounded coal down and up rivers throughout America. What do they think of a “president” who has all but cursed the industry that pays the freight that pays their salaries and perpetuates one of the myriad, purely American, industries that Obama and his foul posse of zealots seek to destroy.

Think how they have brutalized the automobile industry. In one fell swoop, dealerships across the country were cut off at the knees. I was raised in the automobile industry and understand well the rippling ramifications across countless trades that such boorish and petulant actions have caused. And boorish and petulant are common qualities of the retribution-minded political class now operative. A political and intellectual class that, were they represented in one person, that person would be judged to be sado-masochistic and suicidal and put away for fear of the destruction such a combination will produce.

Because you need to look out your window and start counting the things that the political and cultural powers that now operate through the auspices of the United States government seek to deprive you of, trying to convince you that you are far too selfish to hang on to what you own, bitter clinger that you are. Be it long road trips or a home in the country or the vehicle you buy your teenager for his first car, to the death panels that will administer last rites to your parents, or the grandchildren you will never have because government mandates preclude your children freely having children… all you love is forfeit….

In the name of what? Safety? Equality? Change? Fairness? How laughable, how ludicrous, the stuff a madman’s nightmares. To devastate the greatest civilized nation and shackle the greatest freedom this earth has ever witnessed for the sake of absolutely false, unctuous psychobabble disguised as “progress”.

Those who now seek so urgently to secure the power that Obama’s office offers them are people with brutalized and divorced souls. None other but the depraved can calmly discuss the logistics of eugenics, blithely deeming one class or the other as disposable. None but the blackest of hearts can sanction the murder of a child up to the age of 5 or 6 if said child is deemed defective. None but men and women of a perversely evil bent can devise curriculum to teach a child that anal sex is good and that there is no such thing as gender. Or for that matter, as parents, nationhood, or borders or God. These are the men and women who now wield power.

So, you must choose. Choose whom you serve. Because the luxury of ordinary, is gone.

to be continued….

What Would We Do………..

………….without Britain’s Got Talent!

In Passing.

If you were a hedge fund manager, given what’s happened at Chrysler, would you ever again invest in a unionized company? Because I sure as hell wouldn’t.

Update. Professor Bainbridge says:

“You don’t need banks and bondholders to make cars,” said one administration official.

As Larry’s observation suggests, that official — who’s probably never run any business more complicated than a lemonade stand — will soon discover just how wrong s/he was. It’s called CAPITALism for a reason, after all.

In fact, we know from experience that over the last 2 decades, firms are more likely to use debt than equity when relying on external financing. If creditors get tired of getting screwed, the Chrysler debacle and the looming repeat at GM may mark a major shift in the ability of American business to finance operations and growth.

Indeed, this particular chicken may come home to roost almost immediately.

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I saw an ad for a hanging device for growing tomatoes. Among the selling points were that you could get thirty pounds of tomatoes from one plant and that it eliminated the back breaking work of growing them the normal way. Back breaking work? Growing a few tomatoes? All part of the wimpification of the country that someone can come up with something like that and most people will read it and think nothing of it.

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Norm recently had one of his polls, here is the result with what I chose in brackets.

The votes have all been counted and I can bring you the results: your choices for ‘a representative collection of the Arts of Humankind’, to be preserved in a sealed container for the benefit of future beings of intelligence who might happen upon it.

1. Poets: W.B. Yeats (15); Homer (11); T.S. Eliot (10). [Thomas Hardy]

2. Playwright: William Shakespeare (93). [Tom Stoppard]

3. Novelists: Jane Austen (24); Charles Dickens (22); Leo Tolstoy (14). [Penelope Fitzgerald]

4. Composers: J.S. Bach (40); Ludwig van Beethoven (38); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (35) [Bach]

5. Jazz musicians: Miles Davis (25); Louis Armstrong (24). [Sidney Bechet]

6. Rock or pop stars: The Beatles (41); Bob Dylan (16). [Jane Siberry]

7. Country music stars: Johnny Cash (18); Hank Williams (17). [Hank Williams]

8. Movie directors: Alfred Hitchcock (21); John Ford (10). [Jean Renoir]

9. Painters: Rembrandt van Rijn (14); Vincent van Gogh (11); Pablo Picasso (10). [Cezanne]

10. Photographer: Henri Cartier-Bresson (12). [Richard Avedon]

11. Sculptor: Michelangelo Buonarroti (46). [Michelangelo]

12. Architects: Andrea Palladio (13); Christopher Wren (13); Frank Lloyd Wright (10). [Wren]

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Found this at Cafe Hayek:

I read Tocqueville’s Democracy in America well over a decade ago. I now want to read it again. This desire is prompted by this passage below, taken from today’s column by George Will. I’m chagrined to admit I do not recall, from my own long-ago reading of that great book, the Tocqueville quotation :

In “Democracy in America,” Alexis de Tocqueville anticipated people being governed by “an immense, tutelary power” determined to take “sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate.” It would be a power “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident and gentle,” aiming for our happiness but wanting “to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness.” It would, Tocqueville said, provide people security, anticipate their needs, direct their industries and divide their inheritances. It would envelop society in “a network of petty regulations — complicated, minute and uniform.” But softly: “It does not break wills; it softens them, bends them, and directs them” until people resemble “a herd of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”

So what today seems as modern as Matisse once seemed was foreseen 17 decades ago.

Isn’t that amazing? That a Frenchman some 170 years ago could foresee what too many Americans [and others] can’t see when it’s right before their eyes.

The Mood I’m In Tonight.

Well that would be a bit over the top, just a bit melancholy, probably just tired. You note how she pronounces ‘careliss’, interesting, like a bit of authentic 1925 brought to life. I first got to know Bessie Smith back around 1959 when one of the guys in the factory where I was working brought in a set of three EP’s* he wanted to sell, I guess he bought them and didn’t like them too much. Anyway I bought them and was hooked immediately.

* EP’s were Extended Play 45rpm records with two songs per side, for those not in advanced old fogiedom.

Wimpificaton by Leftism.

Gonna be lazy tonight, just refer you to and quote from an article in The National Post by George Jonas, The Wimpification of the West. Not sure if the link will work so a long quote.

“A visitor from outer space describing our place and times (I wrote in 1989) would say that our society is split into two groups: A vast, passive, compliant majority and a tiny, vociferous, militant minority.

“In contemporary Western countries most people are law abiding, civilized and mature to an extent unknown, and perhaps even unimagined, on other planets or periods. They’re civilized and mature to a fault; to the point of parody.

“Their tolerance of crime is a dramatic illustration, but they tolerate intrusions and indignities of other kinds, too. The extent to which Western citizens allow themselves to be bullied, intimidated, expropriated and regimented — internationally, nationally and even municipally — is almost without precedent.

“Even tyrannies imposed limits on themselves. The modern state imposes none. Mediaeval rulers allowed serfs some sovereignty within their own households. Subjects of contemporary serfdoms trying to assert sovereignty at home would have restraining orders slapped on them before they could say, “Father knows best!” An intruder into a serf ’s hut used to be confronted with the best technology available to the serf — probably a pitchfork. If a Canadian householder confronted a burglar with the best technology available to him, chances are he’d be hauled away in handcuffs — the householder, not the burglar.

“In the Dark Ages a tenant farmer paid no more than a tithe of his income — 10% — to the ecclesiastical authorities or to his liege lord. On his own land, he could build a shack or a pigsty with no reference to higher authorities. Try to build a tool shed without a permit on your own land today.

“Tyrants raiding a citizen’s home could seldom count on his ‘mature’ or ‘civilized’ compliance when robbing him of his property — to say nothing of taking control of his wife or his children. Today our tax authorities, social agencies, family courts, municipal officials, environmental, labour or ‘human rights’ boards, house-or home-breakers, muggers, rapists and other terrorists can safely rely on our quiet compliance when they hand us their hold-up notes.

“In the past, bandits, dictators, officials or seducers had to fight, at some risk to themselves, for what they can now take from our mature and civilized citizenry with a flick of a pen. Today a person who isn’t ready to hand over 50% of his income to social engineers, runs the risk, in addition to being fined or jailed, of being viewed as anti-social. And if he threatens to look askance at someone who is after his wife, or keeps a shotgun in his bedroom to make things a little tougher for the uninvited, he’ll be considered a Neanderthal.

“It’s not surprising that street crime flourishes in a climate where people run almost as great a risk of a criminal charge if they defend their property as they do if they try to take somebody else’s. Where a man is less likely to find himself before a tribunal for snatching a woman’s purse than for ‘ogling’ — that is, taking a prolonged look at her.

“The same climate that has ensured the general wimpification of the West has simultaneously given rise to a miniscule minority of hardened militants. These desperadoes, whether they’re muggers, house-invaders or politicalreligious-environmental-feminist-animal-rights terrorists, think nothing of stopping traffic. They’ll disrupt, threaten or mob individuals, institutions, businesses or cities to extort their demands — and the authorities give in to them.

“Our society has split into two distinct groups: A placid majority, conditioned or intimidated into believing that giving up their property, opinions, traditions or habits is a sign of maturity and civilization and a vicious minority that thinks disrupting and terrorizing peaceful citizens is a sign of commitment and justice. We’re truly reaping what we have sown.”

All these loudmouthed groups will fail, in their nature and methods is the seed of their own destruction, too many totalitarian groups have thought they were the answer to mankind’s problems and have crashed and burned simply because their philosophical underpinnings are false, they don’t work. Totalitarian utopianism sounds like an oxymoron but they are two sides of the same coin, it’s what all these systems including socialism share and they never learn. That doesn’t mean they’ll disappear, they’ll morph into another idiot group and the battle will have to be fought again. That’s far in the future, the current crop of misfits are numerous, crafty and cover a wide spectrum, so wide that if they were to triumph they would immediately turn on each other. Probably Islamism is the most dangerous system of all of them because at bottom it’s totally dishonest to the point of insanity.

Curiouser and Curiouser.

The Alice in Wonderland reference is so apt for the Obama gang. For some really blatant thuggery see this article on the Chrysler deal.

The private question relates to the current owner of Chrysler, which is Cerberus Capital Management, one of the most powerful, most wealthy, and most feared private equity groups in the world. They easily have access to billions of dollars they could invest in Chrysler. As of a month ago, they had gotten more than $5.5 billion from the feds. The fact that they simply don’t want to invest their own money tells you that Chrysler as a company isn’t worth investing in, and ipso facto the taxpayers are flushing money down the toilet.

But I want to know much more than that. I want to know exactly what consideration will be paid to Cerberus in return for the common stock that will be ceded to Fiat, to the government, and to the UAW. I don’t think they’re cutting losses so much as turning them into gains. The question becomes: are we just bailing out a bunch of politically-connected billionaires? Whenever you get a chance, ask anyone who will listen: Why has President Obama not told us what he plans to give Cerberus in exchange for Chrysler?

I’ll say one thing for Obama winning the election, we’re going to find out more about what’s going on behind the scenes than we ever thought possible and just maybe shining a light on these shadowy merchants will be the beginning of a really big tea party movement. Come on Sarah, you be mum!

[In case the you be mum phrase is a bit obscure this side of the pond it is commonly said in UK to one who is asked to pour the tea from the teapot.]

[Hey, it's late and I'm awful tired!]

Oh yes, do follow the link and read the whole thing.

In Case You Missed It……..

…………..some good news.

200 Trillion Cubic Feet of Gas Discovered in Louisiana.

Your Smile for Today.

From this post by The Anchoress:

Mr. T does not put up with jibba-jabba, which I think is important for a justice. He is very tough, but he is also compassionate (he often pities fools). Now, I don’t know Mr. T’s political stances, but one can only assume he’s not a liberal because he’s definitely not a sissy.

Time for a Smile.

My last post is not a good way to start the day so how about a little antidote to the morbidity of the left in the shape of a humourous little story, because as we all know, lefty humour is an oxymoron.

The Hair Dryer

Getting a hairdryer through Customs…

A young woman on a flight from Ireland asked the priest beside her,
‘Father, may I ask a favour?’
‘Of course child. What can I do for you?’
‘Well, I bought an expensive woman’s electric hair dryer for my Mother’s birthday that is unopened and well over the Customs limits, and I’m afraid they’ll confiscate it. Is there any way you could carry it through Customs for me? Under your robes perhaps?’
‘I would love to help you, dear, but I must warn you: I will not lie.’
‘With your honest face, Father, no one will question you.’
When they got to Customs, she let the priest go ahead of her.
The official asked, ‘Father, do you have anything to declare?’
‘From the top of my head down to my waist, I have nothing to declare.’
The official thought this answer strange, so he asked, ‘And what do you have to declare from your waist to the floor?’
‘I have a marvellous instrument designed to be used on a woman, but which is, to date, unused.’
Roaring with laughter, the official said, ‘Go ahead, Father. Next!’

Lefties Must Be Getting Nervous.

USA Buys Enough Guns in 3 Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Army

See, America is still America.

From The National Post.

Each day this week, we present a vision of the hereafter from a new book by David Eagleman. Today’s story is entitled ‘Sum.’

In the afterlife you relive all your experiences, but this time with the events reshuffled into a new order: All the moments that share a quality are grouped together.

You spend two months driving the street in front of your house, seven months having sex. You sleep for 30 years without opening your eyes. For five months straight you flip through magazines while sitting on a toilet.

You take all your pain at once, all 27 intense hours of it. Bones break, cars crash, skin is cut, babies are born. Once you make it through, it’s agonyfree for the rest of your afterlife.

But that doesn’t mean it’s always pleasant. You spend six days clipping your nails. Fifteen months looking for lost items. Eighteen months waiting in line. Two years of boredom: staring out a bus window, sitting in an airport terminal, waiting on line.

One year reading books. Your eyes hurt, and you itch, because you can’t take a shower until it’s your time to take your marathon 200-day shower. Two weeks wondering what happens when you die. One minute realizing your body is falling. Seventy-seven hours of confusion. One hour realizing you’ve forgotten someone’s name. Three weeks realizing you are wrong. Two days lying. Six weeks waiting for a green light. Seven hours vomiting. Fourteen minutes experiencing pure joy. Three months doing laundry. Fifteen hours writing your signature. Two days tying shoelaces. Sixty-seven days of heartbreak. Five weeks driving lost. Three days calculating restaurant tips. Fifty-one days deciding what to wear. Nine days pretending you know what is being talked about. Two weeks counting money. Eighteen days staring into the refrigerator. Thirty-four days longing. Six months watching commercials. Four weeks sitting in thought, wondering if there is something better you could be doing with your time. Three years swallowing food. Five days working buttons and zippers.

Four minutes wondering what your life would be like if you reshuffled the order of events. In this part of the afterlife, you imagine something analogous to your Earthly life, and the thought is blissful: a life where episodes are split into tiny swallowable pieces, where moments do not endure, where one experiences the joy of jumping from one event to the next like a child hopping from spot to spot on the burning sand.

I Think……..

……this is fabulous!

Stupid Is As Stupid Does.

Air Force One chased around Manhattan by two fighter jets.

Even Onion wouldn’t have come up with this one. One day this picture will be the symbol of Omama’s Presidency, sheer, total stupidity. I wonder if the Republicans will have the balls to use this in the next election because there will be no excusing it and no living it down.

Update. Confederate Yankee has the background on what really happened.

Confidential sources close to the White House have confirmed that President Obama was indeed on Air Force One today as it attempted to land in New York, but the flight was turned away three times by ground fire originating from Bank of America shareholders.

If You Think Your Life Sucks…………..

………take a look at this.

Renowned documentary photographer Thomas van Houtryve entered North Korea by posing as a business man looking to open a chocolate factory. Despite 24 hour surveillance by North Korean minders, he took arresting photographs of Pyongyang and its people – images rarely captured and even more rarely distributed in the West. They show stark glimpses of everyday life in the world’s last Gulag.

Obama and the US Military.

I sat, as did millions of other Americans, and watched as

their

government under went a peaceful transition of power several

months past.

At first, I felt a pride and patriotism as I watched Barack

Obama

take his Oath of office.

> > However, all that pride quickly vanished as I later watched 21

> > Marines, in full dress uniform with rifles, fire a 21-gun

salute to the

> > President.

> > It was then that I realized how far America ‘s Military had

deteriorated.

> > Every last one of them missed.