"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
Here’s one answer:
Good stuff. Why is the guy giving his talk in someone’s walk-in closet? (Note: exaggeration for effect. *heh*) Because most people can’t handle the truth.
“Cliff’s Notes” version* here.
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So, my inbox had an email with the breathless title, “Horowitz: Are Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers working in the Obama Administration?” and the following graphic:
Methinks these guys give The Muslim Brotherhood too much credit. “Infiltrated”? Nah, more like “recruited”. After all, the Muslim Brotherhood Fellow Traveler-in-Chief occupies the Oval Office.
By now, anyone with more conscious brain activity than a bowl of coleslaw has heard about the scurrilous ad from an Obama-promoting PAC essentially accusing Mitt Romney of being a murderer.
It’s a pack of lies, built by selectively stating a few highly slanted facts… and omitting any truth. And those who presented the ad KNEW they were crafting a slander.
“[They] did enough research to find Mr. Joe Soptic. They did enough research to craft an ad from the man’s sad story. They did enough research to know that Mrs. Soptic died seven years after Romney left Bain, they know that Bain tried to save GST, and they know that an Obama [campaign finance] bundler was the person who ultimately shut GST down. They did the research, they brought the ad forward, and they know more than any of the fact-checkers know, that the ad is a lie.”
They AND the official Obama campaign that introduced Soptic to them also know now AND knew then that Soptic was offered a buy-out, got another job, didn’t put his wife on his insurance–even after she left her job in 2003–and that no insurance under the sun could have saved his wife’s life, since she was symptom-free, was diagnosed during an unrelated illness and passed away 22 days after diagnosis.
And the Obama campaign knew all this back in May, when Stephanie Cutter, deputy Obama campaign manager, hosted a conference call with reporters featuring Soptic and his now infamous story. And yet, of course, the Obama campaign–including Stephanie Cutter, from her own mouth–denied knowing Soptic’s story when the SHTF about the lies in the ad and denied as well any connection to Soptic or the story told in the ad.
Lying about their lies. Oh, well. I guess it’s common enough in this administration to be just another “dog bites man” ho-hummer of a story.
Sarah Hoyt posted yesterday about her experiences with “gummint bureaucrappy” (my neologism applied to her descriptive narrative on bureaucracy), and that prodded one of my two active brain cells to simulate something like life.
Her youngest son had to trek (with Mom, for reasons Hoyt skewers) to the DMV for his license.
“…which will then be mailed to him, in a week or two…”
Good Sharkey, Colonel God! That’s worse than I’ve experienced from any DMV in 40+ years’ experience driving! Most recently, it took me 15 minutes and I walked out with my new license. BUT, it did chap my gizzard that for the VERY FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE, thistime, although I have a 40+ years’ easily-trackable record with four states’ DMVs (20 years in this state alone), THIS time I had to have my birth certificate to “prove” I am me. (WTF? How does my birth certificate prove that I am me, unless the whorls on my baby footprints were to be matched up with my adult footprints?) The funny thing? (No, not “funny ha-ha” but “funny gag-gag”.) My birth certificate was temporarily unavailable (long story), so I sent off for a duplicate (yes, a photostatic duplicate that was as exact a duplicate as can be produced, as comparison with my original later demonstrated). To obtain it I had to include a scanned copy of… my current driver’s license.
So, my (then) current driver’s license was all I needed to obtain a duplicate birth certificate… which was needed to renew that driver’s license.
Complete, absolute and total paper-shuffling B.S.
I draw from this sort of thing–and from Hoyt’s post, to which you can surely add your own examples–an extended lesson:
Governments cannot run without some form of bureaucracy, but since bureaucracies are subject to both Parkinson’s Law and Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy, perhaps that’s an argument for anarchy. *heh* The bureacrappic anarcho-tyranny that is now strangling our economy, castrating our liberty and aiding in stultifying society is certainly the most potent argument against surrendering health care to the “tender mercies” of yet more “gummint bureaucraps”.
Just sayin’
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It seems to me that “individual mandates” as delineated by Justice Roberts’ majority opinion in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius [pdf file] (the “Obamacare” decision) have long been with us. The “feddle gummint’s” taxation power, exercised through the IRS, has long treated different people differently, taxing some more than others, excluding some from taxation because of behaviors the “feddle gummint” wants to encourage, while taxing those “others” more because they don’t do something the “feddle gummint” wants them to.
It seems to me that the two Very Good Lessons we can draw from this decision are
1. ALL the Dhimmicraps (The Zero and his co-conspirators and the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind and all the Academia Nut Fruitcakes, et al) who promoted Obamacare deliberately, maliciously and wittingly LIED THPOUGH THEIR TEETH to get the thing passed.
2. Justice Roberts very wisely (Niccolò Machiavelli would’ve handed him a gold star) didn’t leave it at obliquely pointing out what liars the Obamacare supporters are but placed the responsibility for fixing the mess where it belongs when he said of the Court:
It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.
Bingo!
My exegesis? If you abhor this law as much as you should, then get up off your fat lazy asses and WORK to elect representatives who will overturn it, and in the future pay more attention to electing representatives who genuinely have the republic’s interests at heart.
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How about an amendment excluding lawyers from holding positions as Supreme Court Justices or being elected to federal office? And while we’re at it, how about including term limits for EVERY federal office, elected and appointed? Oh, and throw in language carving out an exception to the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual punishment” for any elected or appointed “feddle gummint” official or bureaucrap. Since tarring and feathering have faded from contemporary use and become “unusual” and since the practice may be considered (fairly, I suppose) to be “cruel” we need that exception in order to properly chastise those who desire (and work and scheme and lie, cheat and steal) to be our masters.
Once such an amendment were passed (notice the subjunctive mood? *sigh*), perhaps a few “feddle gummint” goons could be tarred, feathered and given lighted torches to play with on their way out of town… pour encourager les autres, as it were. (Oh, that I would live to see the day!)
According to ABC “News” *cough-gag*
Both the Washington Post and CNN report that if the House cites Holder for contempt, it will be the first time in history that a U.S. attorney general is held in contempt of Congress.
Could that be because this is the first time in history that a U.S. attorney general has acted so contemptuously toward Congress? Hmmm? Could be… (Is)
The Hivemind needs to learn to call a spade a spade.
It’s a fact. By Hivemind Standards “proving racism” (ANY opposition to The Zero=”racism” according to Hivemind Standards), almost 1/4 of North Carolina’s Black voters are racists.
The Zero received 95% of the “Black” vote in 2008. Recent polls place his support significantly lower in that group:
Not only that, but if you notice, a firm 20% are “self-haterz” (again, Hivemind definitions in operation), since they have come off the Dhimmicrappic Race-Baiting Plantation to declare for The Romney Android 2.X.
Whatever is the world coming to? opposition to The Zero=”racism” according to Hivemind Standards