Month: September 2008

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READ IT!

Sure, it’s one of those terrible things the “mass man” avoids like leprosy (a BOOK! EVIL–Requires… THINKING *gag*), but those who don’t read it will be doomed to suffer the consequences of not knowing why they’re being inundated by the evil of avoidable stupidity.

Ortega y Gasset’s “Revolt of the Masses“.

No excuses. If you were completely illiterate, you’d not be reading this exhortation to read the thing. *heh* It won’t even cost you a dime to read, since the whole thing’s posted online in a very accessible translation. (Heck, even though it is Ortega y Gasset, I’m not willing to brush off my now–thankfully!–rusty Spanish skills to read it, since I’m boycotting the language as a result of the massive Spanish-speaking, Mexican government sponsored, alien invasion of this country.)

All it will cost you is time and effort. Amittedly, Ortega y Gasset can be a dense read at times. Dense in terms of concepts that must be actually thought about to be understood and/or argued with.

And if you do read the book, you will argue with Ortega y Gasset at times. If you are careful in your argument, you will usually only lose gracefully. *heh*

Just read Revolt of the Masses“. Do it for your grandchildren.

Ortega y Gasset’s thoughts may be disturbing to the faux hyper-egalitarian (really illegitimate manipulative elitist dishonestly masquerading as egalitarian), leftist mentality that now permeates our society, but only–really–because it reveals its vacuity:

“…the man we are now analysing accustoms himself not to appeal from his own to any authority outside him. He is satisfied with himself exactly as he is. Ingenuously, without any need of being vain, as the most natural thing in the world, he will tend to consider and affirm as good everything he finds within himself: opinions, appetites, preferences, tastes. Why not, if, as we have seen, nothing and nobody force him to realise that he is a second-class man, subject to many limitations, incapable of creating or conserving that very organisation which gives his life the fullness and contentedness on which he bases this assertion of his personality? “

Reading Ortega y Gasset again reminds me of James Burnham’s view of modern faux liberalism (as opposed to truly liberal precepts)

“Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western Civilization as it commits suicide.”

The two are not in ful agreement, but each sees and describes significant aspects of our sick, sick society.

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Racist Lefties

The decades-long cynical use of the racism stick by lefties to both promote racial divide and keep blacks on the welfare plantation, strictly for the political gain of the Left, has become more openly strident and destructive as the presidential race has progressed. As more and more lefty politicians *spit* like Kansas’s Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and more and more lefty political cheerleaders in publications like Time (the weekly fiction magazine) and outlets like CNN (and, well, the rest of the Hivemind aparatus) spout the “Only racism can explain an Obama defeat” meme, the blatant racism of the left becomes more and more apparent.

Look, as Dennis Prager points out, the poll that has brought about the recent epidemic of vapors among Hivemind commenters and lefty pols indicates that “a fairly significant percentage of Democrats and independents may not vote for Sen. Barack Obama because of his race.” (Prager also points out that the poll doesn’t actually indicate that, but that, of course, makes no difference to reality-based fantsists any more than the poor design of the poll does).

Hello, dumbasses! IF the poll indicates racism as a factor against The One, then it indicates racism in your own camp! And, of course, the weeping (crocodile tears, no doubt) and wailing and gnashing of teeth over the supposition that only racism can defeat The One is simply an attempt to play the race card to attempt guilting the gullible into voting for The Obamassiah.

Disgusting. Especially since The One is really no more “black” than 80% or more of the rest of America. At most, he’s just another Oreo Marxist playing at racial and social divide to gain personal power.

If all the lefty prepping of the plantation inhabitants for rioting at an Obamassiah loss pays off for them, maybe “white” America should all start prepping for CCW licenses. *sigh* Can anyone say, “Inciting race wars”?

This is definitely uncool, folks.

Add to this the “anything goes” disregard for anything approaching truth at every level–from “astroturfing” amid the Dhimmicrappic Underpants left wingnuts/Daily KOSsacks (remember” “righty-tighty/lefty-loosey”?–left wingnuts are all loosed from reality) all the way to the Obamassiah’s own pronouncements (one among many that include his lying accusations that McCain lies about The One’s record *sigh*), and the political landscape in these DYSunited States is looking a bit grim.

(Oh, there’s much, much more. I have a pretty strong stomach, but every single one of the Obama ads I have seen has shaded from lies that are subtle distortions of the truth to outright, blatant libel. Every. Single. One. Makes even my stomach roil in protest. There is a place in hell–Dante’s eighth circle or ninth? Or dual residency?–for such as this.)

No, dumbass, racist lefties, if Obama goes down in the election, it’ll be because–mirabile dictu!–the electorate turns out to be not quite as stupid and venal as I sincerely believe it to be. I hope I’m wrong, for a change, about the level of stupidity of the American voter. (Now, that’s hope and change for the better!)

UPDATE: Even Cal Thomas is not immune to the racist brainwashing bushwah from the left,

America very much likes the idea of a person of color becoming president, if for no other reason than to serve as partial propitiation for our individual and collective sins against blacks.

If it is true that “America” seeks propitiation for “partial propitiation for our individual and collective sins against blacks” then I am not a part of that America. Period. I have never been a part individually OR collectively of any “sins against blacks” and I repudiate in the strongest erms possible ANY imputation of such wrongdoing against me. Such stupidity is not something I have ever or will ever countenance. Skin color makes no difference to me in my treatment of others, nor has it ever. Yes, I do recognize some very real and specific cultural problems blacks inflict upon themselves, as well as some past wrongs by society in which I did not participate in any way, shape, fashion or form. Neither are my fault or responsibility, and imuting some sense of guilt to me for wrongs perpetrated upon blacks by themselves and others is shameful, wrong and utterly without basis.

And I suspect a lot of other people like me, who have never wron ged a black person because of the color of their skin feel exactly the same way. Stop blaming US for the problems of an entire sector of society.

(BTW, yes, I did have some ancestors who fought for their Constitutional rights. I also had some ancestors who fou ght for the North, as well. Neither were truly fighting to end slavery, and in fact those who fought for the North were simply fighting for a slavery with more “plausible deniability”–and so neither get much credit for the eventual extension of full civil rights to all citizens.)

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“Are You Too Stupid to Vote?”

That’s a question I’d like you to consider asking folks between now and November 4 (and any time an election approaches). Sure, you may offend some folks, but if so, they’ve just proven themselves Too Stupid to Vote. After all, it’s only a question, right? *heh*

Follow that question up with a basic civics quiz, such as this one (just copy the thing if you want. What’re they gonna do? Sue you for spreading civics awareness? *feh*). If they can’t pass with such gimme questions as these, then they don’t deserve the franchise.

1. What was the source of the following phrase: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people?”

The speech: “I Have a Dream”

Declaration of Independence

U.S. Constitution

Gettysburg Address

2. What is the main reason the Pilgrims and Puritans came to America?

To practice their religion freely

To make more money and live a better life

To build a democratic government

To expand the lands controlled by the king of England

3. Many people opposed ratification of the Constitution without a bill of rights because they…

Were afraid the states would be too powerful without a bill of rights

Thought that a bill of rights would strengthen the President’s power

Did not want the national government to have an army

Feared that the new national government would deny people their rights

4. The document that contains the basic rules used to run the United States government is…

The Declaration of Independence

Magna Carta

The Mayflower Compact

The Constitution

5. What is the purpose of the Bill of Rights?

To say how much Americans should pay in taxes

To protect freedoms like freedom of speech

To describe the jobs of the President and Congress

To make Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States

6. Who is widely considered to be the “Father of the Constitution?”

George Washington

Thomas Jefferson

Benjamin Franklin

James Madison

7. What is the President’s role in making laws?

The President can rewrite some parts of the Constitution

The President can declare laws unconstitutional

The President can sign congressional bills into law

The President can remove members of Congress from office

8. What are the three parts of the federal (national) government of the United States?

Republican, Democrat and Independent

Legislative, executive and judicial

Local, state and federal

State, national and international

9. According to the Constitution, a person must meet certain requirements in order to be eligible to become president. Name one of these requirements.

Must be at least 34 years of age

Must have voted in the last three federal elections

Must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years

Must be a member of a major political party

10. How many Representatives are there in Congress?

420

425

430

435

11. America declared independence from what country during the Revolutionary War?

France

England

Spain

Canada

12. How many amendments are there to the Constitution?

10

14

27

30

13. And finally, for the 13th question — what is the significance of the number 13 in U.S. History?

It is the official “lucky” number

There were 13 Founding Fathers

The original 13 colonies

There are 13 amendments in the Bill of Rights

I mean, seriously now! It’s a flippin’ multiple choice gimme quiz. Pass it for the franchise? Heck, I’m of the opinion that if someone doesn’t at least know everything on this lil simpleton (dumbed down for the enstupiated) quiz then they shouldn’t even be a citizen, let alone be allowed to vote…

Heck, face it. Most American citizens who now possess the right to vote don’t know the fundamentals of our government structure, our history or anything genuine about current events (most still getting their information from the Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind propaganda machine).

Too stupid to be allowed to vote, and yet it is this mass of stupid people who will elect the congresscritters and administration that will exercise power.

Scary.

Pundits exercise their skills of blowhardery, bloviating about “the wisdom of the people” and whatnot, but as someone *cough* has wisely said,

“In a democracy (”rule by mob”), those who refuse to learn from history are in the majority and dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance.”-third world county’s corollary to Santayana’s Axiom

Doomed?

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“The least of these… “

Bear with me here, OK?

Matthew 25:33-40
33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Barack Obama, The Obamassiah, The One, has badly paraphrased a small excerpt of Matthew 25:33-40 as a stirring piece of blowhardery to ramp up the emotions of his followers. But as a donor to Dinesh D’Souza’s George Obama Compassion Fund has said,

“When Obama said that not taking care of the least of our brothers is our greatest moral failure, who knew that he was talking literally about the least of his brothers?”

That’s right. Barack Obama, the Great Compassionate One, is more than willing to take YOUR money and give it to other folks who have not earned it. To him, that’s true compassion. His own half-brother, though? The one living in Kenya on one dollar a month? Not one thin dime of the $4,000,000 or so Barack Obama made last year to help his own brother–a brother whom he met in 2006 and of whose circumstances he is well aware.

So just remember when you hear Barack Hussein Obama talk about compassion for “the least of these” he is lying through his teeth about compassion, for he doesn’t have one ounce of compassion for his own brother.

The first sentence of the scripture quoted above mentions Barack Hussein Obama’s class: goat.

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All Dressed Up and No Place to Go

Michelle Malkin has one of the better (of many good posts at various sites) posts/discussion threads up about the Palin email “hack”. MQ? Glad you asked. It’s from a “tech-savvy reader who monitors the hackers’ site” who emailed Malkin what he’d discovered of the original invader’s own comments:

I read though the emails… ALL OF THEM… before I posted, and what I concluded was anticlimactic, there was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped, all I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor…. And pictures of her family

So, all the hoopla, hype and spin the Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind has put on it in the last coupla days (the “She was hiding state business/’Troopergate’!” bullshit) leaves the Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind drowning in the Obamassiah tank with no place (legitimate) to go.

Of course, that won’t stop them from going all sorts of illegitimate places in their attempts to make radishes out of bunny poop.

The real gem in all this? The Obamassiah hands out marching orders,

“I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face…” [emphasis in the original bloviation by the Obamassiah]

And–surprise! surprise!–an Obamabot takes him seriously:

David Kernell Named in Sarah Palin E-Mail Hack, Son of Democrat Mike Kernell
By Jon Shanks
Sep 19, 2008

Who hacked the e-mail of Sarah Palin? Right now it appears that authorities are looking at David Kernell. Tennessee state Rep. Mike Kernell [D-Negligent Father–twc] became nationally known this afternoon. He can thank his son, David. Look out as this just got very partisan and this does not bode well for Democrats who now appear they will do anything to try and defeat John McCain and Sarah Palin including breaking the law.

Who woulda thunk it? *heh*

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Keeping the Message on Target

Hmmm, nice to know there’s another moderately smart lawyer out there. John Hinderaker summed up one of the points I made in a conversation w/my Wonder Woman earlier,

Given his [MaCain’s] prescient warnings about Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac–once again, whatever you think of his positions on some other issues, he has indisputably been not just right but far ahead of the curve on one of the most significant issues of our time–McCain has a lot to work with. He needs to reaffirm his support for a free economy, while emphasizing his credentials as a reformist.

This isn’t at all contradictory, since the main corruption of recent times has come from the intermingling of the public with the private. A reaffirmation of free enterprise, with reasonably low tax rates, is entirely compatible with a righteous determination to drive the money-changers–in fact, nearly all Democratic money-changers–out of the federal temple. Someone needs to remind McCain that “reform” is not synonymous with “regulation.” On the contrary.

No, I don’t think Hinderaker has twc central bugged. What he said is just (not-so-common) common sense. Of course, what I miss in all the commentary I’ve read about the political debates-by-proxy in various media and the economy is some substantive talk about energy policy. Frankly, it’s stupid t talk about Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street and leave out the simple fact that a robust economy runs on its energy supply. And that having the throttle of that energy supply in foreign hands is stupid.

Let Juan Mexicain talk about the issues as Hinderaker outlined them and let Palin pound on, “It’s the gas prices, stupid!” (and other pertinent energy issues) and the poor Obamassiah will not be able to keep up with the dialog, no matter how fast his teleprompter scrolls.

I’m still waiting for MCCain to cave to ANWR drilling. If he does that, I’ll hold out hope for him seeing some good sense on immigration policy as well. Hope for change like that is a good thing.

If McCain can do these things, he might even have some coat tails come November.

Hmmm… it just occurred to me (for the umpteenth time) that there is still some virtue left in the Repugnican’t camp. Not once in this campaign cycle have I heard/read a Repug wishing for another terrorist attack on our soil–a disaster that could only serve to enhance Repug chances at election–but I have heard/read Dhimmicraps and their fellow travelers chortling with glee at hurricanes striking the U.S. (especially Ike disrupting the Repug convention) and economic problems. Seems Dhimmis run on the pain and suffering of others and have a vested interest in more pain and suffering happening to keep their trains running.

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Oo-Oo-Oo, I know! A Rope made of hominy!

John McCain proposes a high-level commission to determine causes and preventative measures for financial meltdowns such as experienced over the last week+ and firing the Securities and Exchange Chairman Christopher Cox for failure of public trust.

The Obamassiah”promised new ideas” according to reports.

Oh. Wow. *yawn* That’s… thin, as usual. At least my idea is original, moderately interesting and much, much more substantial than promising “new ideas.”

And Michelle Obama on Palin: “she’s cute.” (Ahh, she’s just envious… still. Always.)

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Election Map 08?

Dick Morris, the slimy polpundit we all love to despise, has a new map of the current presidential race as he sees it. Caveat: this is a snapshot from a political junnkie’s take. Any relationship to real reality is largely a construct of his own imagination.

Now, keep in mind, The Obamassiah has been flaling around for a while trying to find some sort of issue he can fake speaking to with convincing “authority” and believes he’s found one in the economy. The degree to which he can convince people to believe his lies about his tax policy will be critical to his success. I think the degree to which McCain talks about the effects of his own tax policy and the degree to which Palin hammers the energy issue in terms of both the economy and national security will be key for them. Biden, of course, is of no consequence at all.

Actually, recent polls showing McCain within 5 points in New York (!?!), within 2(!!!) in Washington and closing even in Minnesota (now, that’s gotta be giving my Wonder Woman’s sibs a rash!) may be even better signs.

But. It all depends on how much McCain/Palin can overcome The Obamassiah’s lies and the Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind endorsement of those lies.

The critical factor that’s lost in all this noise: how is the presidential race, which gets almost all the airtime and ink, going to affect senate, house and state and local races? An encouraging note is how much Dhimmicrappic contestants are sliding away from identifying with or even mentioning The One. If (still a pretty big IF) McCain/Palin can overcome the lies, damned lies and Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind “news” to a significant degree, their Electoral College victory may be large enough to provide fairly sweeping coat tails. I’m unsure just how beneficial a Repugnican’t majority in one or both houses combined with a MCCain/Palin administration would be, though. Maybe I’d have to rely on a Palin check and balance on some of Juan Mexicain’s tendencies…

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Pitchin’ a concept…

Off-the-wall

For all the folks missing their “Harry Potter” fix cos Rowling’s not doing that gig any more, hows about someone comes up with a series about a Canine Witch… with a crab family for her “familiar”.

Yep, a Canine Witch with crabs. Hey! I can see the first movie already! Bitchin’! (As Sherry M. wrote in my first high school yearbook, many, many, many decades of moons ago… Hey! I earned that by letting her copy my tests in biology. *heh*.)

Be hard to come up with a catchy name for the central character, though, since NOW has a lock on all the really good ones.

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Listing Starboard–again

First, a note about my browsing habits (part of which are noted here). After 13 years of using the Opera browser (during most of which I paid for the privilege–it was that good in its early years as opposed to the competition), I have developed habits some of which may be becoming a new habit for recent Firefox and IE7 users, notably humongous numbers of open tabs. In fact, since I may be running two or three instances of Opera–different versions, for different OSes–at once in the same machine, I may have b etween 50 and 80 different tabs open at once. Hence, I sometimes lose track–bad habit!–of what led me to a particular link. And, since some of the Opera installs I run are THE latest snapshots of works-in-progress, I do see this come into play every now and then:

WARNING: This is a development snapshots: it contains the latest changes, but may also have severe known issues, including crashes and data loss situations. In fact, it may not work at all.

*heh*

That said, here are a few recent “starboard leaning” lost links:

Essential reading on recent Wall Street/Banking events.: How the Masters of the Universe ran amok and cost us the earth

“The first casualty of an American presidential campaign is context…” (*heh*) Paul Greenberg notes in his column, “In the Pigs and Lipstick Dept., Context Can Be All”

In “The Gibson Doctrine” Dennis Prager, the epitome of a “kinder, gentler” conservative columnist, deconstructs Charlie Gibson–oh so kindly and gently–and leaves the bastard bleeding on the floor. An excerpt:

When he asked Palin whether she agreed with the Bush Doctrine without defining it, he gave the game away. He lost any pretense of fairness. Asking the same unanswerable question three times had one purpose — to humiliate the woman. That was not merely partisan. It was mean.

I couldn’t answer it — and I have been steeped in international affairs since I was a Fellow at the Columbia University School of International Affairs in the 1970s. I have since been to 82 countries, and have lectured in Russian in Russia and in Hebrew in Israel. Most Americans would consider a candidate for national office who had such a resume qualified as regards international relations. Yet I had no clue how to answer Gibson’s question.

I had no clue because there is no right answer…

Charlie Gibson trying to assume Dan Rather’s mantle: “Exact words”=”Fake but accurate” for an audience that cannot keep its eye on the ball.

Obama and His Blankie. Just read it.

Grading Obama’s essay on economics. *heh*

I can actually recall the web search that led to these next couple of links. I had reason to recall The Third World County Great Blackout of January 2007 and thought to doublecheck my emergency preparedness:

Disaster Survival Food Pantry Basics

Survival Guide More priented toward TEOTWAWKI events, but a useful check on preparedness for events like The Third World County Great Blackout of January 2007.

One of the best Palin stories yet.

Found under, “Things That Make Me Go, ‘Hmm…'”–

Top Clinton fundraiser backing McCain, not Obama

Obama’s “community organizer” resume bullet point demolished.

That should about do it for today.

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