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Saturday, July 18, 2009
RULE 5 SATURDAY [Updated: see below]In compliance with Rule 5 and my Maker's Mark barrel, the TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee presents....
GLORIA GRAHAME...
The American Broad as Temptress...
I never should answer the phone after midnight...
I never should have said 'yes' and have gone over to her place at 2 AM...
I remember her when we were young...Wow...
I remember when I saw her again years later
and, man, was I hooked...
She acted like I was the King of the World...
But it could only end the hard way...
It was a day like any other. I went to the office expecting the usual clientele: wives who thought their
husbands were cheating; husbands who thought their wives were cheating; desperate men looking for the gal that got away.
The sad and the lonely and the disappointed all came to me hoping against hope that I would restore their worlds—that
their dream lives hadn't died a tawdry death. I had no idea or inkling as I opened the door to my office that my whole
world would change this very day. That she would walk into my office and into my life, looking like a million bucks
and, like atomic dynamite, blowing up my whole world. She said her name was Gloria...
Never treats me sweet and gentle the way she should
I got it bad and that ain't good
My poor heart is sentimental,
not made of wood
I got it bad and that ain't good
But when the
weekend's over and Monday rolls around
I end up like I start out, just cryin' my heart out
Doesn't love me like I love her, no, nobody could
I got it bad and that ain't good
Like a lonely weepin' willow who's lost in the wood
I got it bad and that ain't good
And the things I tell my pillow, nobody should
I got it bad, I got I bad, and it's no good
Though folks with good intentions, they tell me to save up my tears
I'm glad I'm mad about
her, I can't live without her
Lord above, make her love me the way that she should
I got it bad and that ain't good
I
got it bad and that ain't good
No good
No good
No good
No good
[The Sinatra
version —courtesy Todd Peach]
UPDATE: Smitty has once again be very generous and linked to us at THE Rule 5 Sunday posting of postings
over at The Other McCain [to two TCOTS postings, no less: this one and this one here]. Many thanks Capt'n.
I've added another eminent blogger to my version of a blogroll [Fellow DHS-Certified Right Wing Extremists]: Carol at No Sheeples Here has kindly given permission for me to. Thank you Carol. Check out her Rule 5 for this week, Alan Ladd, by clicking here. Also, please check out her one from last week, Hugh O'Brien [one of my favorite actors] by clicking here.
Paco's Rule 5 for this week is the lovely Eleanor Powell. Hula skirt, dancing, and some
of the best gams in creation—you owe it to yourself to give ol' Paco a visit by clicking here.
The Classic Liberal's Rule 5 features the delectable [and I'm sure, dangerous] Rose McGowen,
one of the few actresses around today who looks like she just stepped out of an old Mitchum noir film. Like Capt'n Smitty he linked to two of your humble Dispatcher's postings in his Rule 5 here. Thanks for the links and for the pics to theCL.
18 jul 09 @ 8:33 pm edt
Friday, July 17, 2009
IG-GATE: Shoe Fund Pledge Drive EditionI just added three new links to IG-GATE
part of the UNWELCOME DISTRACTIONS Section of the WWU-AM Page.
Robert Stacy McCain was out wearing down some more shoe
leather today [hit his shoe fund tip jar by clicking here], but he filed a quickie report on some of the background information he's unearthed over at AmSpecBlog.
Please click here to read it.
Also, over at The Washington Times, Quin Hillyer has the latest on fired IG Gerald Walpin:
Today, controversially fired AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin filed suit
in the United States Court for the District of Columbia demanding his job back. The named defendants n the suit are acting
AmeriCorps CEO Nicola Goren, Cheif Human Capital Officer Raymond Limon, and General Counsel Frank Trinity....
Please click here to read his report.
Keep checking back at WWU-AM for the latest on this gnawing headache for Tiberius Obamacus and his royal court.
WWU-AM — WE WARNED YOU, AMERICA
If you missed it, click here to see how even Hollywood finds this story interesting.
SIDENOTE: I apologize for the lack of postings or linkage today. Another DIY project [hopefully
the last major one for quite some time—I'm getting too old for this] took up most of the day. Our front stairs
are collapsing and I'm building a temporary set of 'em to go over the old ones. As to what tomorrow holds: I have to
finish building the new set of stairs, so who knows. I can promise you there will be at least a RULE 5
posting.
17 jul 09 @ 11:32 pm edt
Thursday, July 16, 2009
IG-GATE: Hollywood EditionHere we are only a couple of months into the Scandal and someone is already working
on a film version:
I've been promised by the folks over at RWE Pictures that a more complete poster will be soon in coming. Who will
co-star? Will it be rated R [or NC-17]?
16 jul 09 @ 9:40 pm edt
THE SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is awarded to The Classic Liberal for the following dead-solid-perfect
comment:
The very essence of government is violent force. It is evil. All throughout
history, government has served as the oppressor, an organization of hate, and as a tool of the most brutal tyrants.
Government corrupts, abuses everything in its path, and wastes the wealth of its citizens. It sponsors inequality, confiscates
private property, regulates the behavior of individuals, and prosecutes crimes a mere pittance to its own. Then just for kicks,
it debases the currency so it can steal yet more of its citizens wealth.
Yes, certain governments are worse than
others, and America has been the best! But it's quickly changing in front of our eyes, rapidly too, as we continue to
be blinded by love for the State.
Hear, hear theCL!
Please take the time to click here and read his full posting which was prompted by the horrid and unconstitutional treatment
meted-out to Pastor Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona.
16 jul 09 @ 11:28 am edt
BREAKIN' THE LAW...BREAKIN' THE LAWJosh Painter is concerned that The Tall Cool Detached One may have broken the
law when he wore a Chicago White Sox jacket in public at the All-Star Game. A highlight from the memorandum he has written to Linda Kellen Biegel:
As you can see from the attached photograph, this federal employee is in clear
violation of Sec. 2635.101 of the Standards Of Ethical Conduct For Employees Of The Executive
Branch, Subpart A, “General Provisions” - which states: (8)
Employees shall act impartially and not give preferential treatment to any private organization or individual.
Millions of people around the world witnessed this federal employee wearing clothing with visible
manufacturer’s logos. I call your attention to his Majestic jacket prominently displaying a large Chicago White Sox
logo (We can discuss his Asics shoes at a later date). He brandished this logo jacket while acting in his official capacity
as President of the United States and official starter of Major League Baseball’s 2009 All Star Game, where he became
the fourth U.S. president to ceremoniously throw the first pitch.
Don Obamleone violated the law!...keep moving...nothing
to see here...keep moving.
16 jul 09 @ 11:06 am edt
'PEOPLE ARE DYING'The indefatigable Michael Fumento is back with another report on the fraud/scam
that is embryonic stem-cell research. A highlight from his article in yesterday's New York Post:
MEDICAL-RESEARCH insiders know that embryonic-stem-cell technology is proving a dead
end -- Dr. Bernadine Healy, a former director of the National Institutes of Health and once an ES-cell-research enthusiast,
calls it "obsolete." But the Obama administration has opened wide the federal funding floodgates -- the triumph
of a big special-interest PR and lobbying campaign.
In fact, the
research will line the pockets of a relatively few individuals -- at considerable cost for the rest of us, since the funding
means billions that won't go to more promising areas.
Though ES cells have long been touted as the miracle just down the road, researchers keep driving
into big potholes....
Please take the time to click here and read the whole column.
Permanently linked over in the JUST THE FACT'S, MAM section of the WWU-AM page.
OBAMACARE DELANDA EST!...An Ongoing Series
16 jul 09 @ 10:34 am edt
SPEAKING OF PROFESSOR DONALD DOUGLAS (NUDE)...
16 jul 09 @ 9:55 am edt
THE SOTOMAYOR! HEARINGSAs I explained the other day, I haven't watched them to a real extent:
Have I watched any of the hearings on
the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor [pronounced: sot-oh-may-er (as in Oscar Meyer Weiner)] to be
an Associate Justice on the SCOTUS? I've tried—Lord knows, I've tried. The vast majority of Senators possess
the dullest minds and are capable of no original thinking. Of course, the Leftists on the Senate Judiciary Committee
are engaged in a Big Deception and most of the Republicans, if you gave them one, would fail a CT-scan and be classified
as vegetables. It doesn't help that the judge herself is lying through her teeth and is nothing but a committed dullard
herself. In the years since the fiasco that was the nomination of Robert Bork, the whole process has managed to become
unwatchable.
The only revision I would make to the above is that that some of the Republicans on the Committee
have shown some signs of brain function [although they'll still need to pursue some rigorous OT for some time to come].
However, I've kept abreat of the hearings via some very good commentary by some very incisive people. I
would highly reccommend the following...
-Quin Hillyer, who is blogging over at AmSpecBlog
-Professor Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit
-Professor Donald Douglas, American Power
-Byron York, The Washington Examiner
-Smitty, who is blogging over at The Other McCain
Also, please take a moment to check out Andrew McCarthy's excellent posting over at The Corner on the Judge and her relationship with the the leftist Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Most importantly, you have to check out a letter Iowahawk has obtained that was written by the Judge
wherein she defends herself against some of the charges levelled at her by some of us DHS-Certified RWE's.
A highlight:
...I was not suggesting that one is somehow better than another; only
that they are beautifully, beautifully different.
Indeed, it is only through these differences that America can
forge a better, more diverse tradition of legal justice. As you know, the Latina women of my culture are passionate and fiery,
and if we learn our famously hot blooded men have been cheating with some raven-haired puta at the cantina,
there will be hell to pay. As a Justicia on the Tribunal Supremo I will be naturally vigilant for any colleague
who strays from the law, and will not hesitate to clobber them with the rodillo of established legal precedence.
Afterwards, when we have reached consensus, there will be hot makeup majority opinions.
This is exactly the kind
of wise, precedent-faithful Latina legal approach that I believe will be welcome by others on the Supreme Court bench, all
of whom bring their own unique genetic legal wisdom and instinctual empathy. Justices Roberts and Souter for example, with
their aloof, sexless, constipated, emotionally-stunted WASPy intellects and natural affinity for preppy white collar criminals.
Justice Stevens has this as well, along with a keen grasp for the legal issues facing Americans with senile dementia. As an
Irishman, Justice Kennedy enjoys a natural "gift of the gab" and poetically tragic alcoholism. Like you, I imagine
that Justice Breyer can be kind of pushy and whiny, but we should also remember that as a Jew he is probably very skilled
at cases that involve complicated numbers and math. To the casual observer, it probably seems absurd to have greasy Italian
"goodfellas" like Justices Alito and Scalia working inside the legal system, but if we give them a chance they may
eventually break the code of Omerta and finally turn state's evidence against their Cosa Nostra bosses. Yes, many have criticized
Justice Thomas for being a self-hating "Oreo" and "Uncle Tom," but I like to think that deep inside him
still lurks the the DNA of an angry Cadillac-driving streetwise Superfly, ready to show "The Man" that his pimp
hand is strong.
Please take the time to click here and read the full letter.
16 jul 09 @ 9:37 am edt
IG-GATE: 'Why's Papa on TV' EditionI just added a new links to IG-GATE
part of the UNWELCOME DISTRACTIONS Section of the WWU-AM Page.
Its to an op-ed in The Washington
Times today, by fired IG Walpin's daughter and it gives up a glimpse of how his family has been effected by the thuggish behavior
of the Administration. A highlight:
The TV was on and I barely noticed as the three children came in
and sat next to me on the couch. "Hey, that's Papa," they shrieked, and indeed their Papa, my father, was being
interviewed on the news. "Why's he on TV?" they asked, and I stumbled for a response. The facts were simple, of
course: My father, Gerald Walpin, had been fired as inspector general for the Corporation of National Community Service. This
he claimed -- and many have defended his position -- was an illegal action, and he was now forced to defend himself against
increasingly virulent -- and untrue -- attacks by the White House.
But truthfully, I was less concerned about conveying
an accurate portrayal of his firing than the underscored lesson it so plainly revealed. The bottom line: He was dismissed
simply for doing a job with integrity and honesty and for daring to pursue a case regardless of personal risk -- a fatal combination
in Washington.
How could I explain this obscene scenario to my children? What sense did it make? Our family doesn't
just utter the old mantra, "Honesty is the best policy." We live it: by going back into the supermarket after we
had loaded up the trunk of the car with bags full of groceries because I discovered a pack of unpaid batteries hidden at the
bottom of the cart though it would have been easy to tuck it into a bag; by calling customer service after the store sent
us an absolutely free duplicate patio table, though the easy thing to do would have been to use it on the other side of the
patio; by bringing the $40 we found in the parking lot into the store, hoping the rightful owner would claim it, even though
the easy thing to do would have been to stash it inside my pocket book; by showing my son's third-grade teacher that she added
up his mistakes incorrectly, even though the easy thing to do would have been for my son to keep the "A" and hope
she never noticed.
But then Papa gets fired for his unyielding honesty. So what's the purpose? My children are
bombarded by sports heroes proclaiming they would never take any illegal substance, until the tests come back; governors who
promise they never would abuse taxpayers' money or trust until itineraries leak out or cell-phone numbers are released; financial
gurus who never manipulated a single dollar until sentencing, when they beg for leniency. I realize I am fighting a losing
battle.
She is. Honorable men such as Mr. Walpin are treated like grease, fit only for lubricating
the treads of the tank of Don Obamleone and his thugs as it crushes all that is decent as they roll-on towards Utopia.
Please take the time to click here and read the whole thing.
16 jul 09 @ 8:58 am edt
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
OBAMACARE DELANDA EST!...An Ongoing SeriesI've been flying down the halls of the either in a gurney made of despair and
found several interesting items regarding the socialization of our health care system...
1) Warner Todd Huston
looks at the projected fine for not having health care insurance under Obamacare and compares it to fines for other crimes
around the country:
At this point, Obama favors a $1,000 fine to those of you that
don’t want any part of a nationalized system under his control. That’s $1,000 of your hard earned money swiped
away from you for not knuckling under to his dictats.For an interesting exercise, I thought I’d check around the web
to see what fines around the country would be for other things, things that are far more egregious of a violation of the law.
Things like illegal drug possession, assault, or drunken driving.
Please take the time to click here and see what he found [I think you can already guess].
2) Tevi Troy reports:
...the National Retail Federation has written its own letter distancing itself from Wal-Mart and the employer mandate [which Wal-Mart endorsed].
The letter is not only interesting in that it calls Wal-Mart out by name, but it is also one of the most prominent industry-wide
stands against the government-heavy health-reform efforts in Congress.
3) Yuval Levin thinks the President
is living in Cloud-Cuckoo land:
In his remarksannouncing his new Surgeon General nominee this morning, President Obama said a few words
about the Democrats’ health care reform effort: Over the last
several weeks, key committees in the House and the Senate have made important and unprecedented progress on a plan that will
lower costs, provide better care for patients, and curb the worst practices of the insurance companies. It's a plan
that will not add to our deficit over the next decade. Let me repeat that: It is a plan that will not add to our
deficit over the next decade — and eventually will help lower our deficit by slowing the skyrocketing cost of Medicare
and Medicaid.
To which any observer of the passing scene must say:
What in the world is the president talking about? Where is the committee in the House or Senate that has offered up a bill
that will not add to the deficit? What bill would that be? Even in their own terms, with all the gimmicks they’ve been
able to come up with, the plans the Democrats have proposed so far are all enormously expensive, and no one has yet proposed
a way to pay for them. So what is the “it” the president has in mind exactly?
4) The People's Cube has gotten a hold of one the posters The White House is having printed up:
Perhaps the theme for Obamacare should be Chopin's Funeral March.
15 jul 09 @ 1:51 pm edt
ONE BRIEF MOMENTOn 06 July, I posted about 1st Lt. Brian Bradshaw, 24, of Steilacoom, Washington, who died on 25 June [the same day as Michael Jackson] in
Kheyl, Afghanistan. I heard about his story through Pundette who posted the letter Lt. Bradshaw's aunt wrote to The
Washington Postthat contrasted the way soldiers's deaths were covered and Michael Jackson's. Pundette's original post, which contains links, is here.
Today, The Washington Post has published a letter from the pilot of the plane that flew Lt. Bradshaw
home, Capt. James Adair, and from one of the crew members, Master Sgt. Paul Riley. An excerpt:
For one brief moment, the war stopped to honor Lt. Brian Bradshaw. This is the case for all of the fallen in Afghanistan.
It is our way of recognizing the sacrifice and loss of our brothers and sisters in arms. Though there may not have been any
media coverage, Brian's death did not go unnoticed. You are not alone with your grief. We mourn Brian's loss and celebrate
his life with you. Brian is a true hero, and he will not be forgotten by those who served with him.
Please take the time to click here and read the whole thing. [tip of the fedora to Chris Stirewalt]
15 jul 09 @ 1:20 pm edt
NOTHING AND NO ONE IS SPAREDOver at The Corner, Mark Hemingway quoted from the Leftist blogger
The Seminal who was responding to the controversy created by fellow Lefty blogger who used [rather proudly, like a kid who
says it in the schoolyard the first time] the term 'blow job' to describe what Monica Lewinsky performed on Bill Clinton.
The Seminal is a mother and was not upset that her children heard the word. Rather, she was more upset at something
else:
Because even my kids know the real obscenity isn't a euphemism for oral sex,
or even that it happened on a cable show in the middle of the afternoon. My kids know that the real obscenities are these:
* Our country went to war based on lies told by elected and appointed officials;
* Their brother and the
sons/daughters/brothers/sisters of many other families like ours served for this war, came back damaged or dead, for nothing
but lies;
* Their president and vice president lied repeatedly about all manner of things while refusing to accept
responsibility for any failures which happened on their watch;
Mr. Hemingway commented:
...Isn't possible to condemn political actions you disagree with and be concerned about children
hearing unneeded vulgarity on news programs? Or do politics trump everything?
Regarding his last question: one
of the biggest mistakes too many on the Right make is to assume that the Left thinks like us. They do not. In
their world, everything has a political aspect to it and, in their view, this side of a thing is the most important because
they believe every part of life must be subject to collective control and, therefore, to public scrutiny. The Left loves
to speak in defense of privacy, but it never hesitates to enter the private realms of individuals and exert control in the
course of pursuing one of its goals [said goals all being parts of THE ANSWER they believe they have discovered in an eiphany and
will brook no opposition to]. The foundational ideas of Leftist philosophy all concern themselves with the collective—what
is good for the group over what benefits the individual. This perverse god they worship is a controlling god, like some
ancient pagan one, who demands severe sacrifices so that its world [the world of THE ANSWER] can be maintained. It is
an angry god who allows for no free will [where, in fact, the exercise of it is seen as a mental illness]. Since something
political is by its very definition something that is public, in the Leftist world, everything has a political ingredient.
Like water which makes up over ninety-percent of the human body, for them, it is the main ingredient.
Please take the time to click here and read Mr. Hemingway's full posting.
15 jul 09 @ 10:33 am edt
IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME UNTIL THEY DID THIS......'cause what good is the hefty raising of taxes if you don't collect 'em?
From OMB Watch, we learn:
Congress is preparing to substantially
increase the enforcement resources of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the FY 2010 Financial Services appropriations
bill, representing a reversal in the lethargic funding approved during the Bush administration. This much-needed increase
in resources is only a first step in improving the enforcement of the tax code, however, as observers say the IRS also needs
to improve how it uses its limited resources.
Over at AmSpecBlog, Doug Bandow is spot-on in commenting:
Congress is worried. Deficits are climbing. So legislators have decided
to make a thorough review of the endless duplicative programs and wasteful outlays that fill the federal budget.
Hah, hah, hah! No, Congress plans on beefing up the IRS to squeeze more money out of people so legislators can keep
wasting money.
They claim that they will be targeting 'smaller international businesses and individuals',
'domestic taxpayers with offshore activity', 'offshore tax shelters used by pension plans', and 'complex international financial
transactions', but you know they will be targeting we middle-class homeowners: mostly because, unlike the others mentioned,
we don't have the resources to fight them and, therefore, are more susceptible to the menacing intimidation of the IRS.
I don't know about you, but I'm starting to feel like a boxer in the tenth round of some noir film who refuses
to fall, but keeps getting pummelled by a much stronger opponent; I got rope burns on my back and I can't see through one
eye.
THERE ARE ALWAYS SECOND ACTSIn these dark days, we can all use a good laugh anywhere we can find one and Mark
Steyn provides one over at The Corner this morning. Please click here.
One of the quotes from the article he links to is:
“This treatment
is not an invention, but rather, taken from our Prophet’s legacy,” she remarked. A Hadith narrated by Al-Bukhari
(2855) and Muslim (1671) claims that some people came to Madina and fell ill with bloated abdomens. The Prophet (pbuh) told
them to combine the milk and urine of a camel and drink that, after which they recovered."
Well...nice
to see that Mohammed [hnbd*] concerned himself every once in a while with something that didn't involve killing.
*His Name Be Damned
SIDENOTE: Wonder if I beat Pundette for once in quoting the latest from Mr.
Steyn?
15 jul 09 @ 9:15 am edt
IG-GATE: Sam Gatlin Never Sleeps EditionI just added three new links to IG-GATE
part of the UNWELCOME DISTRACTIONS Section of the WWU-AM Page.
As I mentioned yesterday, Robert Stacy McCain was out and about in D.C., pounding the pavement doing recon on the scandal. He filed a report
late last night over at AmSpecBlog. A highlight:
This on-and-off,
hot-and-cold interest in the IG story by Democratic staffers may or may not be politically significant. Republicans continue
slogging forward either way, though mystified or frustrated by the intermittent nature of bipartisanship.
Much
more is going on behind the scenes than has been reported and, indeed, I was told Tuesday afternoon by one investigator that
keeping up with all the meetings and phone calls prevents staffers from seeing all the reporting. However, the investigator
praised the thorough work of the Examiner's Byron York and was heartened by a Tuesday morning report from USA Today's Matt Kelley.
Two intriguing tidbits emerged from my Tuesday trip to the Hill....
Please take the time to click here to read about the tidbits.
A little while later, Stacy published a posting over at his blog, The Other McCain, that passes
along more of what he found, but is also an entertaining and informative look at what its like to be a real, honest-to-goodness reporter
['What are those?' you young people ask; read on and you'll find out]. A taste:
Shoe leather is an amazing journalistic resource. This is the kind of reporting that gets the blood pumping.
Because of unexpected complications in my itinerary, I didn't park my car at Union Station until 4:09 p.m., but after I got
through on the Hill, I was whistling a happy tune while I walked back down First Avenue, re-entering the marble lobby of the
station at 6:37 p.m., as my meticulous notes show.
From the start: Tourists were still standing in line for a chance
to get into the Sotomayor hearings, and I'd left my cell phone in the car. "Deep Cleavage" hadn't returned my calls,
and nobody was expecting my arrival on the Hill. It was pleasantly sunny but not hot, and the biggest hassle I had was having
to empty my pockets and remove my belt -- the buckle sets off the metal detectors -- to enter the different congressional
office buildings.
"The Other McCain," said the receptionist, becoming accustomed to my unannounced arrivals.
X is on vacation. Hmmm. What about X's Deputy, Y? Not in. Well, how about Z?
Please take the time to click here and read the full posting.
Keep checking back at WWU-AM for the latest on this gnawing headache for Tiberius Obamacus and his royal court.
WWU-AM — WE WARNED YOU, AMERICA
15 jul 09 @ 7:48 am edt
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
WHEN NO ONE CARESHave I watched any of the hearings on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor [pronounced:
sot-oh-may-er (as in Oscar MeyerWeiner)] to be an Associate Justice on the SCOTUS? I've tried—Lord
knows, I've tried. The vast majority of Senators possess the dullest minds and are capable of no original thinking.
Of course, the Leftists on the Senate Judiciary Committee are engaged in a Big Deception and most of the Republicans, if you gave them one, would fail a CT-scan and be classified as vegetables. It doesn't
help that the judge herself is lying through her teeth and is nothing but a committed dullard herself. In the years
since the fiasco that was the nomination of Robert Bork, the whole process has managed to become unwatchable. Paco is dead-solid-perfect when he writes:
The process now involves an enormous waste of time during which the senators
make long opening statements that epitomize the pompous grandstanding that H.L. Mencken once attributed to delegates at political
conventions, where the participants “compare themselves favorably to the rising of the sun and the aurora borealis.”
The mere fact that the Senate Judiciary Committee is chaired by a scoundrel like Pat Leahy has an ipecac-like effect on me,
and the equally nauseating Chucky Schumer always gives the impression of being a penny ante hustler who started out selling
stolen watches before graduating to the “big time.” And then there’s Lindsay Graham, whose physiognomy never
fails to put me in mind of the cartoon character, Droopy the hound-dog.
Wonderfully put.
14 jul 09 @ 8:29 pm edt
A CLEAR & PRESENT DANGERPundette has up a very good posting wherein she aggregates the latest news on
the hacking of U.S. Government and stock market websites. I strongly agree with her when she comments: 'I'm not sure
why this isn't a bigger story'. It should be. Between these kind of cyber attacks and the growing threat of EMP
attacks, we should be very fearful. Concerted attacks of this kind could cripple us more than a nuclear bomb drop and
leave us extremely vulnerable considering how dependent we in America and The West are electronically.
Please take the time to click here and read her full posting.
14 jul 09 @ 8:17 pm edt
SPOT-ON QUOTE OF THE DAY......is awarded to Jimmie Bise over at The Sundries Shack [worth
quoting at length]:
When conservative talk about about how the progressive movement
was built on the foundation of the same programs that fascinated the fascists in the 1930s and 1940s, we’re generally
shouted down as liars. Well, we are inaccurate in one respect. Fascist mainstays like eugenics, forced sterilization, population
controls, and state control over the most minuscule aspects of your life for the “common good” aren’t buried
as deeply as a foundation normally is. These days, that stuff is right on the surface.
Ed Driscoll has a few recent instances that show just how close to the top those ideas still are in the Democratic Party. The
folks espousing those views aren’t fringe cranks either. One of them is a Supreme Court justice. The other is the “Science
Czar”, hand-picked by President Obama.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: the progressive
movement’s sole aim is control. They suffer from the delusion that they can bring about a utopia on Earth and they don’t
particularly care what they have to trample — your liberties or the Constitution — to get what they so desperately
want.
Bravo, sir, bravo.
Please take the time to click here and read the full posting which contains an update.
It has amazed me how openly the Lefties now espouse those beliefs of their's that they would never have dared
to before—it literally has taken my breath away at several points. Its as if they no longer fear any backlash
from trumpeting their inhumane, and totalitarian ideas. The backlash has already started, in fact.
Why have they not restrained themselves accordingly? If they did so, folks like myself who have been warning about the
Left for years, have suffered marginalization, but now are enjoying a wider audience, could very easily be re-branded
exaggerators, not fit to be included in polite conversations. They could then proceed with their subtle and stealthy socialization
and not face rebellions. I can only conclude that either (1) the Leftists are so caught up in their joyous immanentizing
of the eschaton that they have lost all contact with reality or (2) they feel that enough of the American people are so stupid
and have become and are becoming even more so dependent on the government that the people will ultimately give-in to
their leadership. What other explanations are possible?
IG-GATE: Smoldering EditionI just added eight new links to IG-GATE
part of the UNWELCOME DISTRACTIONS Section of the WWU-AM Page [three from Stacy McCain alone].
From Robert Stacy McCain's latest report over at The American Spectator:
"We're not there yet," one Democratic source on Capitol Hill said last
week, when asked about the prospect for hearings on the Obama administration's firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald
Walpin. Congressional investigators are still conducting interviews in the case, so the question of whether to "pull
the trigger" on a full-blown inquiry -- with subpoenas for witnesses to testify under oath at committee hearings -- has
yet to be decided.
The fact that both Democrats and Republicans are involved in investigating the Walpin dismissal
is, however, highly significant. With Democrats controlling both houses of Congress, bipartisanship is absolutely necessary
to getting the truth about the AmeriCorps case, as with the other cases in the smoldering "IG Gate" scandal.
Sensitive political considerations are involved, given the potential fallout from investigations into whether the
Obama administration -- which promised to be the most "transparent" in history -- is trying to muzzle the independent
watchdogs tasked with preventing waste, fraud and abuse in federal agencies.
RSM's back out wearing down
the shoe leather as I write this, talking to sources, doing the recon, sniffing out the stories. Go Sam Gatlin go.
I've also created a link to the thirty-three (33) documents in the possession of The Washington Postthat
Ed O'Keefe published last week [and I missed]. These documents were provided to the Senate Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs Committeeand concern Gerald Walpin and those he was battling against at the Corporation
For National And Community Service.
Keep checking back at WWU-AM for the latest on this growing headache for Tiberius Obamacus and his royal court.
WWU-AM — WE WARNED YOU, AMERICA
14 jul 09 @ 2:32 pm edt
TRASHLevi Johnston, former beau of Bristol Palin and future denizen of detention, has
emerged from under the rock where he lives and is talking to the press again. This stellar example of white trash* talked
to the National Barackcasting Company [NBC] on Monday. From the New York Daily
News, Michael Saul reporting, we have been allowed into the mind of this metal giant who, I am quite sure, will be
featured in a future episode of Cops [shirt off, naturally]:
"She's
very smart," Johnston told NBC Monday morning. "But I just don't think she can handle the stress level as governor
- I don't think she can handle it as President or vice president."
Johnston, the 19-year-old high school dropout
and former fiancé of Palin's daughter Bristol, said on the "Today" showthat he wouldn't vote for Palin if she launched a presidential bid.
"If you
would have asked that question a while back, I think I would have [voted for her]," Johnston said.
"But
after what she has done now, you know, quitting on Alaska, I don't really think she has been the governor she should have for Alaska."
Nothing like a nineteen-year-old high school dropout calling someone a quitter, eh?
But wait...there's more from
this future candidate for a restraining order:
Johnston accused Palin of failing to be
upfront with the nation about her abrupt decision to resign. Johnston said he heard the vanquished GOP vice presidential nominee saying money was a primary motive."
We had tons
of offers coming in from everybody out there and just all kinds of ridiculous things," he said. "There's been talk
about it would be nice to just take the money and run."
Johnston, who appeared shirtless in a recent magazine
photo spread, said there was talk among the Palins about doing a reality show "or just something easier."
I think it more likely that he will bethe one appearing on VH-1 in the future [Levi
Of Love? White Trash Rehab?]
I don't know how the First Dude has been able to restrain
himself, and I'm not the only one who wonders. Over at The Sundries Shack, Jimmie Bise comments:
...I'm pretty sure that were I in his situation, I would have have a nice long
talk with the punk Levi Johnston that would have involved a baseball bat as a visual aid.
Over at The Other McCain, Robert Stacy McCain goes even further:
...As I've said before, the big mystery to me is why Levi Johnston's horribly
mutilated corpse hasn't been fed to a pack of wolves.
Jimmie understands why the First Dude has shown remarkable
restraint:
You just know he's dying to teach Johnston a few things about how a
man should treat a woman but he hasn't because I'm quite sure he knows it will only bring more bad press to his wife.
Quite. Nothin' stoppin' us from payin' a special visit to that boy, though. Hey, we ain't got nothin'
to lose, seein' hows weze already been labeled Rightwing [sic] Extremists by the Gummermit.
*I know what of I speak: when I watch Cops, I'm always
on the lookout for certain members of my family.
14 jul 09 @ 11:29 am edt
HEY HO I'M A UNION MANSteven Rattner has abdicated as Car Czar. According to the Royal Court:
'He determined that this was the right decision for him and his family at this time'. Mark Tapscott has the straight
poop on this over at Beltway Confidential and a link to a good report by Neil King in The Wall
Street Journal. It seems Czar Rattner is being investigated by the New York Attorney General's Office.
Please click here to read Mr. Tapscott's posting.The new Car Czar will be Ron Bloom who is an official with the Steelworker's
Union. As J.P. Freire and David Freddoso report:
Bloom's relevant experience appears to be negotiating for unions with troubled
companies, and so it would be useful to know his approach. Thanks to an old Time magazine collection of quotes, here it is:
"Let me give you some advice. First, we are big believers in
dentist chair bargaining. For those of you not familiar with this approach, it is inspired by the story of the man who walks
into his dentist's office, grabs the dentist by the balls and says, 'now, let's not hurt each other.' We do have a lot to
lose and we and everybody else knows it. But what you need to understand is that we are willing to lose it."
- Prepared remarks for a speech
to an International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals conference in Scottsdale, Ariz.,
May 21, 2006
If you're asked to a negotiation with this
thug, I suggest you secretly film and tape it.
No surprise here, I must say. It all makes sense. Don
Obamleone owes the Dons of the union families big time. He also, I suspects, admires their 'methods of persuaion'.
Sadly, there is a much better and more deserving candidate...
The only man in the whole of these
United States who can solve this problem.
In our hour of need, he is indispensable.
I am, of
course, speaking of: Iowahawk. Please send along your endorsement.
14 jul 09 @ 9:58 am edt
Monday, July 13, 2009
IG-GATE: Summertime & The Living's Easy EditionNo new links today concerning the Scandal. If you haven't caught up on it in a
bit, please check out the IG-GATE part of the UNWELCOME DISTRACTIONS Section of the WWU-AM Page.
Keep checking back at WWU-AMfor the
latest on this growing headache for Tiberius Obamacus and his royal court.
WWU-AM — WE WARNED YOU, AMERICA
13 jul 09 @ 8:20 pm edt
NOT SURPRISED AT ALL IIIOver at American Power, Donald Douglas has been keeping up with
the latest developments in the story about the minority kids who were denied swimming privileges at the Valley Swim Club.
[Please see my previous two postings about the incident here and here. They contains links to Professor Douglas's previous postings.] In his latest, he looks at the reaction of the
Left across the ether. His concluding line will give you an idea of what he found [and it happens also to be a dead-solid-perfect
observation]:
Still, you know how it is with most of these idiots:Once they found out Duesler was Democrat, it's like hey, "this seems a little odd ... couldn't
be one of our guys"?
Please take the time to click here and read the full posting.
In that same posting, the Professor links to a great posting he wrote back in early may entitled: Mainstream
Bigotry and Racism on the Democratic-Left. Here's a highlight:
Take
TBogg's post yesterday, for example, and his Sambo logo above.
If
any conservative blogger or columnist were to post a black Sambo eating a watermelon the entire netroots would erupt in feigned
outrage at the modern day lynching. But it's standard operating procedure on the left. Michael Steele was attacked as Sambo
himself. And recall Jane Hamsher's blackface attack on Senator Joseph Lieberman. And via Memeorandum, Roy Erdoso's literally
got a post up this morning entitled "Black Comedy," calling out Red State's outstanding post which hammers President
Barack Obama's shameful hypocrisy and malign neglect for black kids in D.C.'s school voucher program.
The truth is that leftists don't care about the advancement of minorities, they care about the advancement
of their own power.
Remember
the hardline radical street protests against Proposition 8 last November? They were largely organized by a white gay elite
that systematically denigrates and repudiates the political and social programs of poor inner-city blacks. And on the street,
blacks were attacked with racial epithets, and statewide the black community was excoriated for joining forces with the "evil"
Mormon sponsors of the initiative.
Please take the time to click here and read his full posting.
13 jul 09 @ 8:08 pm edt
I CAN SEE MECCA NOWYou may have heard of the controversy surrounding the design of the Flight
93 Memorial at the crash site. It has been alleged the large crescent in it [called 'The Crescent Of Embrace',
God help us] faces Mecca and 'Every mosque is built around a Mecca-direction indicator called a mihrab, and the classic mihrab
is crescent shaped. Geometrically, the Crescent of Embrace is the world's largest mihrab.'
That quote was from
a posting by The Classic Liberal who has done the grunt work for us and looked into the matter extensively.
The true tale he tells is one of lies and deceptions and, in my opinion, another example of Stealth Jihad In America.
Here are the introductory paragraphs:
In 2007, Flight 93 Advisory Commission
member Tim Baird told Alec Rawls (the author of these blogburst posts) that everyone at the meetings
he attended is fully aware that the giant crescent, originally named the Crescent of Embrace, really does point almost exactly
at Mecca. Professor Baird says they all just assume (himself included) that the Mecca orientation must be an innocent coincidence.
Pretty crazy, when they have also been told the meaning of a crescent that Muslims face into to face Mecca.
Every mosque is built around a Mecca-direction indicator called a mihrab, and the classic mihrab is crescent shaped. Geometrically, the Crescent of Embrace is the world’s largest
mihrab.
However honestly Project Partners believe that the Mecca orientation of the crescent must be a coincidence,
this is not what they tell the public. When reporters asked Memorial Project Superintendent Joanne Hanley about the Mecca
orientation, she denied it:
"The only thing that orients the memorial is the crash site," she said.
Thinking that the Mecca orientation of the crescent must be a coincidence in no way justifies lying
to the public about this explosive information. If Baird’s account is accurate—that the dozens of Memorial Project
Partners all know that the giant crescent actually does point to Mecca—then the Memorial Project has a lot of explaining
to do.
Please take the time to read on by clicking here and, at the end of it, I think you'll agree that they got some 'splainin'
ta do.
Cheers to theCL.
[permanently linked in the ROAD TO SERFDOM section of the WWU-AM page]
13 jul 09 @ 7:42 pm edt
TROUBLING IN THE EXTREMEThe Editors of The Washington Times have put together a succinct
review of Sonia Sotomayor's [pronounced: sought-oh-my-err (as is Meyer Lansky)] words and actions that show
exactly why she must be denied a seat on SCOTUS. A highlight:
From
numerous speeches, public appearances and writings, all read in context, we know that Judge Sotomayor believes that:
- Objectivity, impartiality and neutrality are virtually impossible.
- It is a "public myth"
that law should be consistent and predictable.
- Judges are justified if they "choose to see" only
certain facts and not others.
- A judge's ethnic and gender identity can determine which facts are chosen.
- Appeals courts (not just legislatures or governors/presidents) are where "policy is made," and judges
are justified on their own in "push[ing] the law in a new direction."
- American judges should take
foreign law and opinions into account in their legal analysis so as to "cobble together a culture of justice-seeking"
and not "lose influence in the world."
- Most infamously, "inherent physiological and cultural
differences" help ensure that a "wise Latina ... would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white
male."
From top to bottom, this record is extremely troubling....
To say the least.
Because of its compact size and the fact that it is spot-on, this editorial would make a perfect e-mail to your loved ones
and Senators.
Please take the time to click here and read the full editorial. [tip of the fedora to Quin Hillyer for letting me know of its existence]
13 jul 09 @ 7:19 pm edt
STEYN OF THE WEEKENDWherein we quote from something the great and talented Mark Steyn said or wrote
over the past several days....
From his latest syndicated column, a double-shot, straight-up:
...So what’s to blame for this eternally looming rendezvous with the iceberg of apocalypse?
As the British newspaper the Independent reported:
Capitalism
and consumerism have brought the world to the brink of economic and environmental collapse, the Prince of Wales has warned. . . . And
in a searing indictment on capitalist society, Charles said we can no longer afford consumerism and that the ‘age of
convenience’ was over.
He then got in his limo
and was driven to his other palace.
It takes a prince, heir to the thrones of Britain and Canada and Australia,
Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, and a bunch of other places, to tell it like it is: You pampered consumerists are ruining the joint.
In the old days, we didn’t have these kinds of problems. But then Mr. and Mrs. Peasant start remodeling the hovel, adding
a rec room and indoor plumbing, replacing the emaciated old nag with a Honda Civic and driving to the mall in it, and next
thing you know, instead of just having an extra yard of mead every Boxing Day at the local tavern and adding a couple more
pustules to the escutcheon with the local trollop, they begin taking vacations in Florida. When it was just medieval dukes
swanking about like that, the planet worked fine: That was “sustainable” consumerism. But now the masses want
in. And, once you do that, there goes the global neighborhood.
By contrast, as an example of an exemplary environmentalist,
the prince hailed his forebear, King Henry VIII. True, he had a lot of wives, but he did dramatically reduce Anne Boleyn’s
carbon footprint.
And...
You can work hard and get a nice place in
the suburbs. If you were a 19th-century Russian peasant and you got to Ellis Island, you’d be living in a tenement on
the Lower East Side, but your kids would get an education and move uptown, and your grandkids would be doctors and accountants
in Westchester County. And your great-grandchild would be a Harvard-educated environmental activist demanding an end to all
this electricity and indoor toilets.
Please take the time to click here and read the whole column.
13 jul 09 @ 2:33 pm edt
QUOTES OF THE DAYSpot-on speechifying from the Right [get it?] Reverend Robert Stacy McCain's latest homily [and Dawn Bennett]:
Liberalism’s implacable hostility to market economics — their attacks
on investment and profit, in service of their politically motivated demonization of “the rich” — is
one of those ideas that has consequences. Everyone with a 401(k) account has suffered directly from the collapse
of the stock market. Measures that prevent recovery will only prolong the misery, and one investment manager summed up the current situation Friday: “Nobody’s investing because there’s no reason to invest,” said Dawn Bennett, CEO of Bennett
Financial Group.
Exactly. If companies can’t make profits,
what’s the point in buying stock? But the government is now controlled by liberals who want us to believe that corporate
profits are evil, and so the prospects for investment are bleak. “Investment” is just another word for “capital,”
and you can’t make capitalism work without capital. As Michelle Malkin said in September 2008, The Fundamentals Suck.
And as the Reverend preached in May 2009: The Fundatmentals Still Suck.
What we need now is...
Thinkonomics!
13 jul 09 @ 2:04 pm edt
WELCOME DISTRACTIONSWhile our Fearless Leader despises those events that he considers 'unwelcome distractions'
[and we call legitimate issues and concerns], he and his minions love to play the distraction game themselves. How this
game is played is detailed by Erick Erickson over at Red State:
The
President pushes cap and trade to the Senate while also advancing socialized healthcare.
As those balls advance,
the Attorney General makes rumblings about prosecuting individuals who engaged in enhanced interrogation techniques.
While conservatives get distracted by the Attorney General, the administration claims Dick Cheney refused to disclose a
CIA program and the Democrats will investigate.
Tomorrow Sonya Sotomayor begins her confirmation hearings.
By throwing all of these balls around, the left hopes to distract the right. Our natural inclination is to be distracted
by the shiny national security balls. Some of us will fixate on Sotomayor.
Meanwhile, the leftist agenda makes
it way further through Congress. Already, some Blue Dog Democrats are leaning toward supporting socialized healthcare. And
the right is suddenly intrigued by the Cheney story, which is as much about distracting us from Nancy Pelosi’s lies
about the CIA as it is to distract us from coming policy.
Mr. Erickson then goes on to offer us some very
good advice. Please take the time to click here and read it.
Paco also weighs in on this matter:
...because the only chance the president has of securing his health care and energy
"reforms" is to get people to take their eyes off the ball - and what better way than to make a Dick Cheney face
and go "Boo!"
True, so that in the long run all of us will go 'Boo Hoo'.
Its not just
the elected Leftists in Washington that play the game of distractions, the media do it too, as I commented on in a posting here.
And let us not forget the sage words of one Robert Oswald Belvedere:
If you want to know what the those
on the Left are doing in a particular situation, just look and see what they're accusing the Right of doing. You've heard of 'The Big Lie', this is 'The Big Deception'.
13 jul 09 @ 11:23 am edt
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T E R M S
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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'Bob Belvedere, you're a nasty piece of work.'
—Anonymous—
'you charming rogue'
—Robert—
'The sad decay of Bob Belvedere into a Rule 5 junkie saddens us all.'
—Smitty—
'Belvedere went slightly crazy on us.'
—Smitty—
'And thank you, Dr. Belvedere, for setting me straight on Rule 5! I tell ya, that Belvedere Dude
is Funny!'
—Irish Cicero—
'Kevin Binversie is not nearly so shameless a blogwhore as Troglopundit . . .
but then again, nobody really is. OK, maybe Bob Belvedere, as if anyone could compete with Bob.'
—Stacy McCain—
'Lord Fatheringay von Whoopsie of the Dung Heap Hooter'
—Anon. —
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