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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
RULE 5 CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN: 22 DEC 2009The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee has voted unanimously to
initiate a Countdown To Christmas. With so much bleak news enveloping
us this year, The Committee feels a duty to provide a moment of relief, so from now until Christmas, the
gals are on us.
In our second entry we have decided let our subjects pass along their Christmas
advice...
DENISE MILANI wants you to make sure everything
is hung with care...
SANTA wants you to make sure you're careful when packing
your gifts...
SPECIAL NOTE: Tomorrow's Countdown To Christmas entry
will be our normal Hump Day affair.
22 dec 09 @ 9:22 pm est
DEVIOUS BASTARDSOver at Red State, Erick Erickson reports on a little known provision
of the Senate version of Obamacare [emphasis Erick's]:
If ever the people
of the United States rise up and fight over passage of Obamacare, Harry Reid must be remembered as the man who sacrificed
the dignity of his office for a few pieces of silver. The rules of fair play that have kept the basic integrity of the Republic
alive have died with Harry Reid. Reid has slipped in a provision into the health care legislation prohibiting future Congresses
from changing any regulations imposed on Americans by the Independent Medicare [note: originally referred to as "medical"]
Advisory Boards, which are commonly called the “Death Panels.”
It was Reid leading the Democrats who
ignored 200 years of Senate precedents to rule that Senator Sanders could withdraw his amendment while it was being read.
It was Reid leading the Democrats who has determined again and again over the past few days that hundreds of years
of accumulated Senate parliamentary rulings have no bearing on the health care vote.
On December 21, 2009, however,
Harry Reid sold out the Republic in toto.
Upon examination of Senator Harry Reid’s amendment to
the health care legislation, Senators discovered section 3403. That section changes the rules of the United States Senate.
To change the rules of the United States Senate, there must be sixty-seven votes.
Section 3403 of Senator
Harry Reid’s amendment requires that “it shall not be in order
in the Senate or the House of Representatives to consider any bill, resolution, amendment, or conference
report that would repeal or otherwise change this subsection.”The good news is that this only
applies to one section of the Obamacare legislation. The bad news is that it applies to regulations imposed on doctors and
patients by the Independent Medicare Advisory Boards a/k/a the Death Panels.
Please, please, so take the time to click here and read the full report.
Harry Reid is a tyrant.
He has violated his oath of office. And anyone in the
Senate who votes for this tyrannical measure will have violated his or her own oaths. This is pure lawlessness.
Erick is spot-on when he says 'We Are No Longer A Nation Of Laws'. We are now a Nation Of Men—a Nation Of Tyrannical
Men.
22 dec 09 @ 1:52 pm est
SNEAKY BASTARDS*And you thought the Stupak Amendment in the House version of Obamacare would
stand. I mean, hey, that's what a good number of House Democrats said, right? How come then HHS Secretary
Kathleen 'The Abortinator' Sebelius is smiling with a s--t-eating grin?
Could be the way she looks normally....nah,
just kidding with ya...Ed Morrissey and Philip Klein have the details here and here, respectively.
*And that's insulting the bastards.
22 dec 09 @ 1:39 pm est
NO RETREAT, BABY, NO SURRENDERSixty-five years ago today, General Anthony C. McAuliffe issued his reply to the
Germans who had demand that he surrender Bastogne to them [The Battle Of The Bulge].
To those on the Left who have demanded that we surrender The Constitution Of The United States to them,
I give the same reply...
NUTS!
22 dec 09 @ 1:23 pm est
Monday, December 21, 2009
RULE 5 CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN: 21 DEC 2009The TCOTS Rule 5 Compliance Committee has voted unanimously to
initiate a Countdown To Christmas. With so much bleak news enveloping
us this year, The Committee feels a duty to provide a moment of relief, so from now until Christmas, the
gals are on us.
In our initial entry we have decided to honor some unsung gals of Christmas...
THE PAJAMAGRAM GALS...
21 dec 09 @ 7:41 pm est
THESE DAYS*In the wee small hours of the night, the Senate voted along party lines to move
the process of socializing the American health care system further down the road to perdition. I've been sailing through
The Ether on a ship made of sorrow, gathering odds and ends of related commentary and information on what's been going on
and what the future holds...
-As to why the vote had to be taken at 0101 hours in the morning, Bryon York explains
it very well:
...But the fact is, there is no reason the Reid Amendment vote
could not have been held at a more reasonable hour. One a.m. Monday was the earliest moment that Senate rules allowed a vote,
but there is no rule keeping the Senate from voting at some time after 1 a.m. If Reid had scheduled the vote for, say, 11
a.m. Monday, that would have been fine. If he scheduled it for 4 p.m. Monday, or 10 a.m. Tuesday, that would have been fine,
too.But Reid is determined
to pass the national health care bill by Christmas, and to do so he has to get the cloture vote on his amendment done at the
earliest moment. The timeline is Reid's and Reid's alone. "The bottom line is, Sen. Reid schedules the floor," says
one well-connected GOP aide. "He is the only one who can schedule the floor." If Reid had scheduled the vote during
business hours on, say, Tuesday, a final vote would not have taken place until the day after Christmas -- an outcome Reid
apparently found unacceptable.
Please do take the time to click here and read Mr. York's full explanation.
The Democrats en-masse have been bleating to anyone who will listen
that it is the Republican's fault, but let us not forget Rule #1 of Bob Belvedere's Rules For Leftists:
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'.
-Michelle
Malkin has the full Cash For Cloture Bribe List up at her place. She also has the 411 on one of the most outlandish
features of Obamacare: the mandate to cover adult children.
-Over at AmSpecBlog, Matthew Vadum is dead-solid-perfect:
The current
iteration of ObamaCare is classic Mussolini-style Fascism (i.e. corporatism). It forces Americans at gunpoint to purchase
health insurance, a requirement never before imposed on the American people. The big insurance companies and the federal
government have combined to subject the public to this tyrannical mandate that Americans overwhelmingly oppose. This is the
economic essence of Fascism.
Indeed it is.
-In but four simple words, Pat Austin sums up the Left's actions regarding Obamacare [emphasis mine]:
And in the dead of a cold winter's night, it's coming. Your cheap, bought-off
representatives in Washington are sneaking the big one over on you. Destroying the American economy, capitalism and free enterprise.
Making us like Europe, like someone we don't want to be.
If it's so great, why isn't Congress going to be covered
by this abomination? Because they KNOW it's bad.
Cheap. Tawdry.
Insidious. Filthy.
That was from a Sunday posting of her's. Here's a snippet from what she wrote this morning:
While you were sleeping last
night you got a little closer to losing America as we know it. While you were sleeping, you came closer to losing some of
your individual rights and freedoms. You're ever so much closer, for example, to no longer being able to say, "Why no!
I don't believe I want to buy health insurance this year!"
My only quibble with Pat: 'some' is not
strong enough because, once our health care is socialized, we will no longer own our own lives. The government will
be able to regulate practically anything we do under the guise of 'protecting' our health.
-If you think I'm being
over-the-top and melodramatic, I draw your attention to this by Carol over at Carol's Closet:
I'm going to paraphrase Sen. Harkin's remarks during
the announcement that the Dems have the votes for ObamaCare:
This is not a mansion. This is a starter home. It has has a good foundation and a good roof for protection
AND IT HAS ROOM FOR EXPANSION. Do not doubt for one moment that once the Dems jam this bill through the race will be on to expand it and expand
it until they have the single payer, government run system that they have wanted all along.
The truth is
out there for all of us to see.
-Dan Riehl is optimistic that the vile things being done by the Leftists will rouse the passion of the American people:
There are Tea Parties aplenty still taking place. Whether she herself runs, or not, Sarah Palin inspires a great
many Americans, with plenty of them not so previously engaged. And we have issues. Ones on which the Right, not the Socialist-Democrats
are on the right side of in the hearts and minds of most Americans.
They need to come to understand that, certainly. But there is time for
that, too. Time and passion. I predict we will see a huge burst of energy on the Right as we go forward confronting all this.
I can imagine activists who previously weren't picking up phones doing so, even working for campaigns - issue, or candidate
related. Add contributing money to the mix.
-Roger Kimball is too:
The trouble for the Democrats
is that the will of the American people, once aroused, is not something you can ignore. It rebels against long trails of “abuses
and usurpations.”
I suspect that the “tea parties” of the last several months will look like
modest dress rehearsals once people get a handle on what the Obama-Pelosi-Reid triumvirate are attempting to do to us.
-Chris, over at WyBlog, is slightly optimistic, but, like the true conservative he is,
he hasn't quite lost his cynicism:
The majority of the sheep in this country are too busy this week hustling
for the last Zhu-Zhu Pet or Wii Fit to be paying much attention to Harry Reid. But maybe when the full specter of what the
Democrats have done to us finally sinks in they'll awaken from their slumber. Maybe the tide of public opprobrium will hang
this albatross around the neck of every last one of them and sweep their despicable slimy political carcasses deep into the
abyss from whence ObamaCare emerged, perhaps even before our way of life is irrevocably destroyed.
I hope
Dan and Roger are right, but I remain standing beside Chris for now [its in my nature].
-Over at Another
Black Conservative, Clifton is in a fighting mood and issues a call to arms:
I want future generations to know, what it is like to achieve the American
Dream like I have, like my parents have and like my grandparents before them. This is why I choose to fight for my dream,
the American Dream. I will not simply run to the polls come 2010 or 2012, instead I will work tirelessly to speak out against
the progressive agenda, now and ways. I will attend Tea Parties, I will go to protests, and I will do what it takes to align
the stars for my dream, the American Dream. Are you willing to do the same?
That's a question we all must
seriously consider. If we are willing, I think we also have to look straight in the eye QUESTIONS WE CAN NO LONGER AVOID.
-The Classic Liberal does his classic aggregating thing brilliantly once again.
-The Left Coast Rebel is dead on the money:
... One of the worst things about this disaster is the Christmas Eve vote.
Whereas Christmas Eve is a celebration of a gift of life to Mankind, the United States Senate is giving us a closed-door gift
of death nearly in secret.
-I've saved the best for last. Paco has made the best overall comment on all of this mehshigaas [this is worth quoting at length; I hope Paco doesn't
mind, but it is so spot-on and so well-put]:
There can be no compromise, no
negotiation, no comity, no assumption of good faith by Republicans in their future dealings with the Democratic Party’s
left wing (and considering how the so-called blue dogs were bought off with lucre and sweetheart deals for their constituents,
any contrast between the left wing of the party and its “center” represents a distinction without a difference).
Our strategy should be to unite behind candidates who pledge to repeal this monstrous legislation and to break the
power of the federal octopus that is within reach of delivering us into the clutches of a socialist bureaucracy. This is not
the America that the voters wanted, the foolhardy vote for Obama and Democratic “moderates” by many citizens notwithstanding.
This is the America of hardline statists for whom any actual improvement in health care quality and coverage is a matter of
indifference. The whole point of “health care reform” is about enlarging the power of the state at the expense
of the freedom of the individual. It is Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi making decisions for us because they have decided that
we cannot be trusted to make the “correct” decisions ourselves. And it will not stop with health care.
Who will be content to live in the dystopia created by these grave-diggers of liberty? Once the precedent has been established
that the federal government has the right to do absolutely anything, whose property – and life, for that matter
– is truly safe? We are currently involved in an ideological civil war – what Ed Driscoll and others have referred
to as a “cold civil war” – and the sooner we admit it, the sooner we can dispense with the notion that
what we are seeing is business as usual, and that we can blithely go about our lives ignoring the ramifications of the decisions
being made in Washington by a combination of hard-core leftists acting in concert with centrist quislings.
The
votes we cast in 2010 and 2012 are likely to be the most important we will cast in our lifetimes.
Amen.
LEFTISM DELANDA EST
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21 dec 09 @ 5:32 pm est
TO THE FOLKS AT IMDB......ah...you might want to rephrase the headline by putting quotes around the movie
title:
21 dec 09 @ 4:42 pm est
SHELDON WHITEHOUSE IS VILEDuring the Senate session yesterday, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island delivered
a truly amazing speech—amazing in the sense that it was one of the most over-th-top diatribes I have ever witnessed
in the Congress. The full speech is available here [text and video][tip of the fedora to William Jacobson]. Here are a few highlowlights:
Madam President, as we are here in the Senate today, Washington rests under a blanket of snow,
reminding us here of the Christmas spirit across the nation -- the spirit that is bringing families happily together for the
holidays. Unfortunately, a different spirit has descended on this Senate. The spirit that has descended on the Senate is one
described by Chief Justice John Marshall back in the Burr trial: "those malignant and vindictive passions which rage in the bosoms of contending
parties struggling for power."
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Hofstader captured some examples in
his famous essay, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics."
The "malignant and vindictive passions" often arise, he
points out, when an aggrieved minority believes that "America has been largely taken away from them and their kind. Though
they are determined to try to repossess it and to prevent the final destructive act of subversion." Does that sound familiar,
Madam President, in this health-care debate? Forty years ago he wrote that.
Hofstader continued, those aggrieved
fear what he described as "the now-familiar sustained conspiracy" -- familiar then, 40 years ago; persistent now
-- "whose supposed purpose," Hofstader described, "is to undermine free capitalism, to bring the economy under
the direction of the federal government, and to pave the way for socialism." Again, familiar words here today.
More than 50 years ago, he wrote of the dangers of an aggrieved right-wing minority with the power to create what he called
"a political climate in which the rational pursuit of our well-being and safety would become impossible."
A political environment "in which the rational pursuit of our well-being and safety would become impossible."
The malignant and vindictive passions that have descended on the Senate are busily creating just such a political
climate. Far from appealing to the better angels of our nature, too many colleagues are embarked on a desperate, no-holds-barred
mission of propaganda, falsehood, obstruction and fear.
History cautions us of the excesses to which these malignant,
vindictive passions can ultimately lead. Tumbrels have rolled through taunting crowds. Broken glass has sparkled in darkened streets. Strange fruit has hung from Southern trees. Even this great institution of government that we share
has cowered before a tail-gunner waving secret lists. Those malignant movements rightly earned what Lord Acton called "the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict upon wrong."
And...
How are these unprecedented passions manifested in the Senate?
Well, several ways:
First, through a campaign of obstruction and delay, affecting every single aspect of the Senate's
business. We have crossed the mark of over 100 filibusters and acts of procedural obstruction in less than one year. Never
since the founding of the republic, not even in the bitter sentiments preceding the Civil War, was such a thing ever seen
in this body. It is unprecedented.
Second, through a campaign of falsehood about "death panels" and cuts to Medicare benefits, and benefits for illegal aliens, and bureaucrats
to be parachuted in between you and your doctor. Our colleagues terrify the public with this parade of imagined horrors. They
whip up concerns and anxiety about "socialized medicine" and careening deficits. And then they tell us the public
is concerned about the bill. Really.
Third, we see it in bad behavior. We see it in the long hours of reading by the clerks our Republican colleagues have forced. We see it in Christmases and holidays ruined
by the Republicans for our loyal and professional Senate employees. It's fine for me, it's fine for the president; we signed
up for this job. But why ruin it for all of the employees condemned by the Republicans to be here?
Finally...
If they can cause this bill to fail, the truth will never stand up as a living reproach
to the lies that have been told. And on through history, our colleagues could claim they defeated a terrible monstrosity.
But when the bill passes, and this program actually comes to life and it is friendly -- when it shelters 33 million Americans,
regular American people in the new security of health insurance, when it growls down the most disgraceful abuses of the insurance
industry, when it offers better care, electronic health records, new community health centers, new opportunities to negotiate
fair and square in a public market, and when it brings down the deficit and steers Medicare toward safe harbor, all of which
it does, Americans will then know, beyond any capacity of spin or propaganda to dissuade them, that they were lied to.
And they will remember.
There will come a day of judgment -- and our Republican friends know that. And
that, Mr. President, is why they are terrified.
The Senator is seriously delusional. I can only see
this as a cry for help.
Let's take a look at some of the commentary in The Ether by rather more rational people...
-The aforementioned William Jacobson:
Those of us who stand for individual liberty and health care freedom have
been called malignant vindictive people similar to those who hung blacks from trees and to the Nazis who ran through the streets
breaking windows and beating Jews in the streets.
You really need to listen to this speech. It is almost beyond
description. I cannot fully convey the full scope of this vile speech. It is scary to see a Senator on the floor of the Senate
make such a speech.
It's even scarier to see that not a single Democrat objected to it on the
Senate floor or afterward. Are we moving toward a Communist-like regime where people are viscously denounced
in official settings by mealy-mouthed apparatchiks with the approval of those in power? Sure as Hell feels that
way. These are extraordinary times we live in.
Another point: 'The Burr Trial' that he refers to was the
trial of Aaron Burr for treason. So Whitehouse is accusing us of treasonous behavior it would seem. Hmmm...let's
see: on one side you have those of us who have made the case that The Constitution forbids laws like Obamacare
to be passed; on the Left side, you have people who have openly declared that what The Constitution says
does not matter. Hmmm...who's treasonous? Just asking questions...
-Stacy McCain has
been all over this one. He watched the speech live and here are some of his comments as he did:
...For crying out loud, Sen.
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) reads Richard Hofstadter on the Senate floor. In other words, if you oppose this bill, you're
a neurotic suffering from status anxiety. There can be no rational opposition.
And...
...That was one of the most villainous speeches I've ever heard by any Senator, and I hope to God that some of my
friends who are Senate staffers will provide a Republican with a solid rebuttal to vile Adorno/Hofstadter psychoanalytic crap,
which is no more valid today than when Buckley critiqued it in Up From Liberalism nearly 50 years ago.
-From a posting by Stacy later in the day over at AmSpecBlog:
There you have it, then: Nazis
and militia kooks elect lying Republican senators who ruin Christmas and who oppose the bill only because they want to "break"
the president and are terrified that if the bill passes, it will expose how they've engaged in fear-mongering propaganda.
'Ruining Christmas'? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
-In an article in today's The American Spectator, Stacy
provides a little history on the tactics being used by Senator Whitehouse. Here's a teaser:
Certainly this should sound familiar to conservatives, as Hofstadter's
psycho-political theory -- derived from the work of Theodor Adorno -- was analyzed and dismissed by William F. Buckley Jr.
a half-century ago.
"If you dismiss a priori the possibility that there are rational grounds for resisting the Liberal view
of things, one necessarily looks elsewhere than to reason for explanations," Buckley wrote in his 1959 classic, Up
From Liberalism. Buckley observed that "one needs no advanced degrees in clinical psychology and psychoanalytic
theory in order to penetrate the fallacy of The Authoritarian Personality" -- the most famous work of Adorno, a leader of what has become known as the Frankfurt School of political theory.
Adorno claimed to have proven scientifically that American conservatism was rooted in psychological maladjustment, fostering a tendency
toward authoritarianism, which he asserted was the fundamental source of European fascism.
However, as Buckley explained, Adorno's argument was a tautology based on the implicit presumption
that all opposition to liberalism was illegitimate and therefore irrational. Adorno's theory was "marvelously convenient"
for liberals, Buckley said, and it has been recycled periodically ever since.
This is well worth
a read because it is a quick lesson in how the majority on the Left think about the Right [hint: they think we're all deranged...no,
really, they do, and that means there can be no dealing with people who think like that because they will treat you like an
insane person and humor you, while they maneuver around you].
Also for additional insight [and to do the Time Warp],
check out Stacy's other postings here and here.
-On the whole 'Republicans have ruined Christmas' bit, I think Carol, over at Carol's Closet,
said it best:
...But as to your staffers ruined Christmas, go flipping home. The Republicans
aren't keeping you there. Republicans don't want you there. Nobody asked you to cram this down our throats. In fact, we asked you not to. You didn't listen. You're not listening now. You stand on the floor of the United States
Senate and speak like a petty, third world tyrant. Sen. Whitehouse, I will give the respect that you have earned. None. Kiss
my ass.
Mine too.
-Erick Erickson, over at Red State, is spot-on:
There you have it — gone are the days when Democrats compared American
soldiers to Nazis on the floor of the Senate. Today, Democrats condone one of their own calling, from the floor of the Senate,
the majority of American citizens Aryan hate mongers rooting for the assassination of the President of the United States.
And yes, Whitehouse was referring to the majority of American citizens. How do I know? Because every single
poll is showing the majority of Americans opposed to this health care deform legislation. Whitehouse labeled everyone
opposed to the legislationas racist hatemongers rooting for bullets against the President.
That is sad, sick,
pathetic, and should be condemned by every other Senator.
In fact, you
should call your Senator at 202-224-3121 and ask if he condemns Senator Whitehouse for saying, from the floor of the Senate,
that opponents of the Democrats health care legislation want Barack Obama to be assassinated — the only
clear interpretation of his remarks.
The only good thing here is the Left's targeting of us instead of the
soldiers. Let the bastards abuse us—its the least we can do for the troops.
SHELDON
WHITEHOUSE DELANDA EST.
21 dec 09 @ 2:38 pm est
WASHINGTON DC: THUGGERY IS THE NEW NORMALVia the incomparable Smitty, I have learned of a great list William Jacobson has put together, over at Legal Insurrection, of some of the underhanded and corrupt things
the Democrats have done lately:
How amazing is the number of circumstances
which caused this perfect storm, without any one of which we wouldn't be on Obama's precipice: Massachusetts changes its rules for a second time to allow appointment of a Democrat
in Kennedy's place rather than having to wait for the special election; Al Franken outmaneuvers and out-litigates Norm Coleman
to steal the Minnesota race; Rahm Emanuel recruits "blue dog" Democratic wolves in sheep's clothing and people fall
for it; the media covers up the Obama agenda during the campaign, portraying Obama falsely as a moderate; [added] George Allen
says "Macaca," and so on.
As Smitty comments:
It would nearly, as a thought experiment, be fun to let this Progressivism
run its fell course, collapsing our whole friggin' world into an autocracy. You know why? Because these jackass lefties that
think this road a great one would be singing the loudest about how bad it sucks. Imbeciles.
I sympathize
with the sentiment.
Perhaps the most perfect example we've had lately of the way things are done under the Leftists
in this comment made by our beloved Black Caesar to Democratic Representative Peter Fazio after he voted against the climate change, bank bailout, and 'stimulus' bills
[tip of the fedora to Michelle Malkin]:
Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.
I'll let my hero John Shaft speak for me...
It warms my black heart when a namby-pamby college boy gets his black on
and gets all Fred Williamson with some cracker....yeah, sure does...
Well...he's
a complicated man...
21 dec 09 @ 11:34 am est
JUST A REMINDER: BEN NELSON IS A CHEAP WHOREWith so much going on, I think it important that we all remember that Senator Ben Nelson is a cheap whore. I know many of my Friends In The Ether think Ben Nelson is a cheap whore...
-Carol, over at No Sheeples Here, is pretty set in her opinion:
... think most will agree that
there is no cheap whore cheaper than Ben Nelson. K Street ain’t the only place in Washington where you’ll find a cheap whore.
Quite.
-While
not directly calling Ben Nelson a cheap whore, Roger Kimball implies that he is and, like all cheap whores, predicts that Ben Nelson may develop a figurative nasty rash:
I hope that Ben enjoys his final two years in the Senate.
OK,
that’s not quite right. Since it was Ben Nelson of Nebraska that finally got Harry Reid his desperately needed 60th
vote for socialized medicine, I hope 1) that the next two year are unpleasant for Sen. Nelson and 2) that he loses in 2012
by a landslide.
I’m
still not being entirely candid. Nelson is a pathetic pawn in this game. He’s history and I hope he has plans for a
new day job. He’ll need ‘em.
He'll probably
be appointed chairman of a death panel.
-Mark Steyn, too, implies that Ben Nelson is a cheap whore, but also implies that Harry 'School Marm' Reid is the lowest of the lowest kind of John: one who doesn't even use his own cash for
the transaction:
This line from Representative Cantor caught my eye:
They're allocating taxpayer dollars as if those dollars belonged to the senators.
It borders on immoral. Just look at the way Senator Landrieu put her vote up for sale. Senator Nelson did the same.
You can't even dignify this
squalid racket as bribery: If I try to buy a cop, I have to use my own money. But, when Harry Reid buys a senator, he uses
my money, too. It doesn't "border on immoral": It drives straight through the frontier post and heads for the dark
heartland of immoral.
-Jim Hoft, aka the Gateway
Pundit, has done the digging and found that hookers are protesting this association with cheap whore Ben Nelson. From the Canada Free Press, Joy Tiz reporting:
Members of the world’s oldest profession are infuriated by the relentless and invidious likening of their industry
to the world’s second oldest profession. Word on the street, literally, is that hookers are prepared to exact
an apology for the defiling of their good names.
Even
those not well acquainted with the whoring business should be able to appreciate the asymmetry between a freely bargained
for and mutually beneficial exchange, versus extorting taxpayer funds in the service of tyrants.
Paid escorts everywhere are especially aggrieved by the hooker title being conferred upon thoroughly
contemptible politicians; including Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson. Nebraska Democrat Nelson, who was elected on a pro
life platform, sold millions of unborn babies in exchange for extravagant tax payer funded perks for his soon to be former
home state.
...
Hookers
are also quick to admonish that unlike congress, working girls outside of the D.C. area only infrequently take taxpayer
money.
Well, I want to assure the hookers that we don't mean to defame the sexual caregiver profession in
and of itself. No, no. Rather, what we're saying is that Landrieu and Nelson are CHEAP whores. Now I think we can agree that its the cheap whores who drive down prices for the non-cheap whores, so I think there's
no offense to be taken by hookers who play by the rules and maintain a respectable level of hygiene.
-By the way...let's
not forget it was Stacy McCain who first labeled Ben Nelson a 'cheap whore'.
-And finally...
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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.
What They're Saying
About
BOB BELVEDERE &
The Camp Of The Saints... 'Sir Bob of Belvedere'
—Smitty—
'So many good things at Camp of the Saints that you need to just click and keep scrolling.'
—Paco—
'Go, read it, fine stuff over there!'
—GatorDoug—
''Belvederus Maximus'
—Smitty—
'You are contributing to a noble yet futile cause -- the butchification of metrosexuals.
TCOTS
roolz!'
—Red—
'[H]e takes retro dame blogging to a new, narrative noir level.'
—Smitty—
'Staunch Rule 5 aficionado Bob Belvedere, is shameless indeed (I have so much respect for this man)!'
—The Classic Liberal—
'Who knew he was such a fan of the undead?'
—Smitty—
'We need fighters, and I suspect Beck will fight 'til ev'ry foe is vanquished.
Bob Belvedere gets it. Phyllis Chesler gets it.
We defend truth and
liberty against lies and tyranny. Every eye is upon us and we are surrounded by enemies as numerous as the grains of sand
on the shore. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer.
WOLVERINES!'
—Stacy McCain—
'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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