Hate Speech

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Someone Inspire Me, Please

Contrary to what you may have thought, I’m not dead.

I did, however, sink into a deep blue funk that gradually turned into the blackest depression. It was the depression of a man gradually becoming convinced that he was the only sane man left in a world gone stark raving mad. I have written elsewhere that my defining characteristic is my patriotism, the only non-conflicted message I received from my utterly incompatible parents. As a patriot, I knew that my country was rife with people who were Americans in a technical sense only, having entirely missed the point of the country. With gut-wrenching despair, I look around and it seems as if those are the only kind left. It sometimes seems as if those Americans who  thought and felt as I do were only a mirage. I feel so terribly alone. I am surrounded by people who look at the swarthy madman with unthinking adulation that goes beyond worship. At first, I was merely angry because I believed it would take at least 20 years to mop up the mess he would make. Now I am terrified for my children and grandchildren because I realize I was too optimistic. In a couple of months the madman has done more damage to my nation  than I had assumed was possible in a 4-year term, and he seems to just be getting started. Occasionally, people try to console me by saying that control of Congress will change in 2010 just like it did in 1994, and Obama, like Clinton, will be kept on a short leash. People, I fear that if elections are still permitted in 2 years, they will only be show elections with Acorn providing the oversight.

My usual sources of consolation, talk radio, Fox News, and certain blogs, no longer do the trick for me. They continue to preach “reasonable” measures: debate, education, pressuring elected officals with calls, letters, the ocassional well-behaved protests, and others. People, those measures are no longer adequate. That ship has sailed. Instead, these pundits and commentators bitterly denounce the people who, like me,  believe it is time to take the next step, to take a page from the enemy’s playbook and prepare ourselves  for the likely violent reaction from those that now hold a monopoly on power. We are ruled by raving lunatics that expect us to provide the fuel for our own immolation, and to be grateful for the honor of doing so. I fear that we are not just doomed as a nation, we are just doomed…period.

Someone convince me that I’m wrong. Someone convince me that there is hope.

Multiple Intelligences’ Evil Little Brother

I’ve got to tell you, Barack Obama has impressed me.  The man is no piker. I knew that the Obama administration would be a train wreck. I was so upset about what was coming that I literally got sick to my stomach, as I’ve written elsewhere. As I told my son during an anti-liberal bitch session, he’ll most likely be a one-termer, but afterwards it’ll take at least 20 years to mop up the mess. Little did I know that he would do in 30 days what I had assumed it would take 2 or 3 years to accomplish. Most amazing of all, the friggin’ Obamatons are still cheering. I’ve reluctantly accepted the fact that there might not be any way of cleaning up after the Gypper.

“How can people be so stupid?” my son rants. I just smile because it has only been a few years since he was part of the problem. Still, I enjoy seeing the passion of the convert in my boy. Much like Bill Clinton, I feel his pain, and I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about it. I think at least part of the answer lies in the Multiple Intelligences theory that I learned during my brief and ill-advised spasm of altruism in the public school system.

Multiple Intelligence theory, to paraphrase, states that there is no single, integrated intelligence in human beings. Rather, there are a multitude of, say, subintelligences and some can be rather low while others are relatively high all in the same person. In a flash of inspiration I told my fellow education students that that concept brought in the concept of Multiple Stupidities through the back door, which they admitted had to be true.

I propose that there is an intelligence that has never been mentioned in this context: Political Intelligence. This would explain how a person could have superlative Intelligences in physics, mathematics, and langauge, but be an absolute complete friggin’ moron in the political realm. Their positive intelligences are offset by their political stupidity.

You know the politically stupid types. For instance, they’re the ones that get enormous earmark-based funding to research projects in fields that no one cares about. If you give these wizards millions of dollars, a staff of hundreds, and unlimited access to a super computer, in only 30 years they will arrive at the obvious. Don’t fret your lost tax dollars, that’s not the important thing. The important thing is that they cared.

Let Atlas Shrug

I’m sure many of you feel a vague sense of unease about how Obamageddon will proceed. Relax, that vague sense will soon turn into a stomach-wrenching and very specific dread. If you really want to get a feeling for what the Obamanoids socialist Nirvana will be like to live in, reread Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. If you’ve never read it, slap yourself in the face and get busy correcting the oversight.

I know. I know. You’ve got a thousand excuses. All of them lame. “But it’s 1000+ pages of small print! I just don’t have that much time!” you say. Nonsense, there’ll be plenty of time while you’re unemployed. “But I don’t like to read!” you protest. You better learn to like it. Chances are it’ll be all the entertainment that those outside of Barack’s Aristocracy of Pull can afford. “But it’s hard!” you complain. So is starvation and being a foreigner in your own land. “I tried to read it once, but people who saw me said mean things!” you whine. Suck it up you whiny bitch and be a man (or alpha woman).

Afterward, you’ll know what to expect and will know Directive 10-289 when you see it.

Who’s Costing Who the Election?

I’ve just seen—for the gazillionth time—some pseudo-objective pundit asking the question: “Is Palin costing McCain the election?” It makes me want to tear my hair out. The sad and unspeakable truth is: McCain is costing Palin the election. The pundits gravely question what her selection says about his judgment, all the while fighting with each other to be first in line to lick Obama’s boots.

The Left, and its wholly-owned subsidiaries—the Democratic Party and the mainstream media—would have the gullible believe that McCain is a right-wing firebrand and our beloved and passionately embraced nominee. How soon they forget. McCain became our nominee by virtue of being the only semi-corpse still twitching on the battlefield after the primary bloodbath. In that overly crowded field, McCain was my second-to-last choice for the nomination. Only Ron Paul made my stomach queasier.

In fact, and virtually without exception, candidates for the GOP nomination were eliminated in order of my preference for them. George Allen goes down in flames for saying macaca? It’s pathetic that the Left saw fit to seize upon this bit of harmless on-the-spot word coinage as a weapon to bring him down. It is a biting indictment of the limp-wristedness of our society that it instantly caught traction. My choice for the nomination was Tom Tancredo. He was aligned with my political philosophy to the tune of 90-95% overall, and dead on with the issues that mattered most to me. He went early as well. Mostly for the sin of telling the truth.

For most of us, McCain was a double whammy. He has long been the most wishy-washy Republican in the senate, well deserving of the epithet RINO. He has had a long history of sacrificing his own party and constituents on the pagan alter of bipartisanship. Many of us thought it would be better to elect an honest Democrat than to exalt a fake Republican.

So why do we support McCain now? The reason is the classic political reason: He is the lesser of two evils. Those of us still capable of rational thought are astounded at how quickly and enthusiastically our entire nation began guzzling the Obama Kool-Aid. Logic and reason were tossed out with the garbage and an appallingly bad choice for a presidential candidate now is known as The One, The Savior, The Messiah, etc.. Obama’s only truly amazing achievement in life is making John McCain the best available choice for president of the United States.

All of which leads us back to Sarah Palin. Why the outpouring of admiration, affection, and support? Because she is the one we kept hoping for during the primaries. The one that never came. She is here now, even though we’re disappointed it’s in the number two spot, but still here. The Left has showered her with unprecedented—and unjustifiable—vitriol and bile. They don’t do it because they fear her. To say so would be to do Sarah an injustice. They do it because she fills them with gut-wrenching terror. More than anything else, the Left fears the appearance of another Republican with the effectiveness and political invincibility of Ronald Reagan. The Left knows, even if we don’t, that Sarah Palin is a Ronald Reagan that looks good in heels and a skirt.

Let’s just all pray for the sake of the nation, and our own sakes, that McCain doesn’t cost this wonderful woman the election.

The Liberal Lexicon: “I” Words and Phrases

The Fine Art of Liberal to English Translation

Contrary to popular belief, Liberals do speak a form of English. Their dialect, though strange, is quite similar to American English. In fact, the vocabulary, grammar, syntax, and even the accents are identical. So what accounts for all the heartache and confusion that plagues Libero-American relations? The answer is semantics, the linguistic field of word meanings. The concepts identified by the same words are often quite different between Liberal and American English. As a token of my desire to bridge this gap I humbly submit these translations.

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The Definitions

1. Indoctrination—Sunday School.
2. Interest—Theft, when collected by a private lending firm. Investment (see below), when collected by a government entity.
3. Intern—a mobile humidor.
4. Internal Revenue Service—the only law enforcement agency not staffed entirely by fascist criminals.
5. Intolerance—insisting on standing by your original position even though a liberal has whined about how it makes him feel.
6. Investment— confiscatory taxation.
7. Irrelevant—describes information or evidence that proves a liberal’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
8. Islam—The only truly peaceful religion, thus the only one allowed and expected to use swift and blinding violence to prove it.
9. Ivins, Molly— hideous woman who never quite got over George Bush standing her up at the prom.

Liberal Democats: Welcome to the Conservative Republican World

Reading the Washington Post article started with a certain giddy delight. That feeling turned into pure unadulterated schadenfreude when I read this:

That’s how it goes in the Heath home, and how it has always gone. It’s a household that explains much about Palin, 44, and how she acquired her set-jawed, swaggering demeanor, one that her mother first noticed “about the time she started to walk.” Above all, the house suggests how she came by her dissident, out-of-category feminism, a code by which she tackles old-boy networks relentlessly, while remaining blank if not unsympathetic on traditional women’s issues with a capital W, such as sexism in the workplace.

“I’m a little absent from that discussion, because I’ve never thought of gender as an issue,” she told Alaska Business Monthly after being elected governor in 2006.

All of which reminds me of a favorite Ann Coulter quote which I’m likely paraphrasing: “When we solve a problem, we lose an issue.” All of which may explain why professional grievance-mongers can convince the droves of voters with short memories to vote them back in to deal with problems they caused in the first place.

Welcome to our world, leftists of all kinds. You work feverishly to solve a problem, then along comes another generation of voters who didn’t grow up with the problem and—voilà!—everything that was traditional is radical again. Such as the hard-working professional woman who dreams of the day that her husband makes enough money that she can stay home and raise their children. “Blasphemy!” they shrieked.

Women have had, and still do have, legitimate grievances that need to be addressed, but not so many as feminists have frantically tried to have us believe. For instance, the average woman’s attitude about the right to be drafted and sent into a combat zone consists mostly of: Would you butch bitches please stop helping us? In the 60s and early 70s I lost count of the number of women who said that, other than equal-pay-for-equal-work, feminism offered nothing that they wanted.

I’ve pondered the issue for years and I think that, for the majority of real-world women, feminism should be a process of “adding to” as opposed to the elitist feminists “substituting for”. That means that many women wish to keep what they’ve traditionally had as women while adding to it certain things which were unfairly denied. The sisters of the latter-day feminist movement have insisted on a throw-out-the-baby-with-the-bath-water approach. Then they affect amazement and hurt when most women balk at the idea of being penisless men.

The Left may succeed in destroying Sarah Palin. I hope they don’t, purely on the basis that the words “President Obama” frighten any rational person to the point of incontinence. But it is possible they can destroy her— temporarily. The plucky gal didn’t have much time to prepare for this ordeal, but her razor sharp mind can absorb a lot in 4 to 8 years. Then we’ll be treated to the sight of Katie Couric running from the interview room in tears.

Sarah Palin: Feminist Icon—Not!

I’ve been both annoyed and amused by the spectacle of feminists thrashing around on the floor and frothing at the mouth in the midst of their Palinileptic fits. I’ll invoke the timeless old adage that “Actions speak louder than words.” We can reasonably conclude that the stated goals of the latter-day feminist movement are not their are not their actual goals.

Lets look at Sarah Palin’s feminist bona fides:

1. She was the quintessential alpha female in high school
2. So much so that he was nicknamed, “Barracuda.”
3. Took her opportunity to go to college and earn a degree (not to many years ago that would have raised eyebrows aplenty)
4. Had a brief career in broadcasting in a traditionally male position
5. Saw problems in her town that affected her children and was proactive enough to get elected to the city council.
6. Did well enough on the city council to get elected mayor—as a woman.
7. Did well enough as mayor to get elected governor of Alaska—as a woman.
8. As a young female political newbie she locked horned with the entrenched political establishment in the capital, both Democrats and Republican—and won—as a woman.
9. She has in the past, and still does, enjoy a record setting popularity rating as governor of her state
10. She enjoys, participates, and succeeds in endeavors typically regarded as exclusively in the male domain: hunting, fishing, marksmanship, etc.
11. She CHOSE to get married.
12. She CHOSE to have a large family.
13. She CHOSE  to carry her Downs Syndrome child to term.
14. She CHOSE to take her husband’s name.
15. She bagged the quintessential alpha male
16. She now has that alpha male househusbanding for their family.
17. She got nominated to Vice President of the United States for God’s sake.

As you can plainly see, feminists should be building a statue of Sarah Palin a thousand feet high. As the “prophet” Mohammed said, “War is deceit.”

Palin’s life and career checks off just about every box on the feminist checklist. So why the ubiquitous, shrill, hysterical, desperate, and frankly fearful denunciations of her? Because the modern feminist has another agenda. We can all admit, as I readily do, that women have had some very legitimate grievances from time to time. So why, as those grievances have been eliminated or lessened over the years, do feminists get more angry and shrill? Because their real goals are not being achieved even as their cover is being blown.

You see, if you judge by actions, which are much louder than words, you can see that feminists never really wanted women to “have it all”. They wanted to women to have the bilge water they offered instead. You see ladies, it was one of those wink-nudge situations. You were supposed to be smart enough not to believe their propaganda directed at gullible, insecure males. You were supposed to understand that the government was the only “man” you would ever need. You were supposed to be smart enough to realize that in the chest of every man beats the heart of a rapist and exploiter, that a fetus is a parasite, that children are unfair burdens, that all heterosexual sex is rape, and so forth. But you didn’t realize those things, you silly girls believed the cover story instead. Now your feminist betters are filled with righteous rage at you because, as they often say, “When you demean yourself, you demean us all.” It must be very frustrating to fervently believe an ideology that can only produce happiness if 100% of a gigantic demographic are 100% on board.

Let’s face it, latter-day feminism is a wholy-owned subsidiary of the leftist/collectivist/socialist movement. Any action they take in the name of women is for women only to the extent that it serves their collectivist goals. Should you dare to set one foot off of the feminist reservation, they turn on you like a rabid Pit Bull turning on its master. That is why feminists despise Sarah Palin. She just cheerfully yanked the cloak off of their true motivations.

Upcoming Opportunities to Be Offended

Memorandum

From: Memo Writer
Topic: That Burning Sensation in Your Ears Is the Truth

Abstract: The management intends to begin a series of posts dealing frankly with race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, religion, and other topics only liberals are allowed to talk about. Over the last several years management has reluctantly modified his position on these issues and reassessed what needs to be done in the best interest of the United States. Management will illustrate his positions and reasons for them with detailed anecdotes of personal encounters he has had. It has been the experience of management that liberals whine when confronted with similar views, with the exception of minority liberals, who squeal like stuck pigs and threaten bloody violence. Therefore, management would like to preface these posts with the following position statements:

Item 1: The Memo Writer was pro-minority rights before being pro-minority rights was cool.

Item 2: When the Memo Writer asks a group of liberals for a show of hands as to who has dated a person of another race, his hand is usually the only one in the air.

Item 3: The Memo Writer’s best friend, and best man at his wedding, is half Mexican

Item 4: The Memo Writer once had his heart broken at the loss of a child he was fostering, a 3/4s black girl left by an in-law.

Item5: When he was in the Navy, the Memo Writer treated the Filipino women with the utmost respect, even the bar girls, for which they often expressed gratitude.

Item 6: The Memo Writer likes all women, but admits that he finds exotic women particularly compelling and has always dreamed of taking a special such woman for his wife, though fate has always frustrated him in this goal.

Item 7: The Memo Writer must admit he is baffled when people  warn him about the mixed-race children that would result from a union such as in Item 6.

Item 8: What many people interpret as racism in the Memo Writer is, in fact, culturalism. The Memo Writer scoffs at the idea that any race is significantly better than any other on a genetic basis. He does, however, acknowledge the fact that all men, women, and especially cultures are not created equal. That some cultures, especially Western Civilization, are vastly and demonstrably superior to others.

Item 9: The Memo Writer’s pro-Western and pro-American beliefs do not mean he thinks his ethnic group is genetically superior to yours. The Memo Writer does not derive his sense of identity from his race. He derives it primarily from his nationality

Item 10: The Memo Writer believes that anyone can dump the garbage that was their old culture, take up the mantle of Americanism, and be his equal, possibly even his superior, in any endeavor.

Infants in Hell

Recently, we’ve all been treated to the spectacle of pro-abortion protesters screeching spittle-laden bile at calm and somewhat befuddled pro-life protesters. I’ve avoided the issue of abortion in my blog because life has taught me it is a totally polarized, and polarizing, issue. As such, there really is no winning a debate on the topic if you define winning as persuading someone against abortion. I’ve found that it is very rare for someone to actually switch sides. When it happens, it is usually because the person involved has finally realized that there are things more important than their short-term best interests and convenience, as many women made infertile directly or indirectly by the procedure can attest.

My oldest child was conceived while I was a Senior in high school. I was astounded by the almost universal reaction to this event. Almost to the last person, the question asked was, “Have you scheduled the abortion yet?” This was done by future in-laws (ironically, all good true-believing Catholics), friends, our teachers, the school counselors, medical people, and especially people at the clinic. When we announced our plans to keep our child, the near universal response was a groan, an eye-roll, and the exasperated words, “Oh, God!” You might say we made the wrong choice, but that “potential human being” is about to turn 30 years-old, is my only son, is a journeyman electrician, and has given me 3 totally awesome grandchildren. Sure, my life was harder, but I have no regrets, and I sleep well at night.

Not to say I didn’t waver from time to time in my opposition to the practice. While I would never consider the practice myself, I was occasionally partially persuaded by the arguments of the “pro-choice” crowd. (I hate that euphemism. What’s next? Will murdering an adult become “retroactive choice”?) I could never go totally over the line because, no matter what my mind said, my heart just kept screaming, “Hell no!” I bounced around like this for several years until about 25 years ago, I happened to be reading a book by Ayn Rand. I was reading an essay on human rights, human worth, and human dignity. It was very compelling. Finally, I read something that clicked in my mind and I said, That’s it! That’s why abortion is wrong!” To my horror, when I resumed reading the very next sentence stated that what I had just read was why the right to an abortion was absolute! Talk about cognitive dissonance. This all goes back to what I said about polarization and the difficulty of actually persuading someone by rational argument.

It is one thing to argue with someone who had his facts wrong, or has misinterpreted the facts, or some other issue relating to getting the true facts. The problem lies when people have the same facts, do a legitimate analysis—and come up with exactly the opposite answer than you did! You and your adversary have placed value judgments on the same data and come up with tragically opposite positions. I have come to believe that the pro-abortion stance isn’t so much immoral as it is amoral. In my conversations, and arguments with pro-abortion people, I don’t feel that something is wrong with them so much as I come away with the queasy feeling that something is missing.

The take home lesson there is that these people will never, and can never, be persuaded appeals to morals, ethics, logic, or reason. They can only be, and must be, defeated. To do otherwise is to waste valuable time while people die.

I’ve heard arguments that we should let the pro-abortion crowd have their abortions. That since they tend to be hard-core leftists they will weed themselves out of the gene pool. A good theory, but it breaks down in practice. Leftists import people from other countries to breed the dim-witted left-wing voters they are too lazy, or gay, to breed themselves. Besides, I think that is a rather cynical way to look at it. A newborn is innocent until it can make a conscious choice to do wrong. You have to give them a chance. They might decided to rebel against their parents by putting down the crack pipe and going out and getting a job.

Even the leftists claim that there is a responsibility, or even a duty, to watch out for and protect the weak, innocent, and vulnerable. What is more weak and innocent than an infant? What is more vulnerable than a weak and innocent infant trapped inside its murderer’s body? That truly is an infant in Hell.

Just for the Record

Just for the record. If the Obamessiah does win the presidency, I predict a decades-old position of mine will be disproven. For over 30 years I have confidently stated that there will never be a worse president that Jimmy Carter. I expect Jimmy will be bumped to 2nd place all too soon unless Obama can be put on a short leash like Clinton was when the Democrats lost control of Congress in 1994.

John McCain and Global Warming

I just watched the focus group testing of John McCain’s new global warming ad. In it he assures somebody, most likely not his own team, that he believes in global warming.

I’ll take a different tact on this just for a change. Believing in climate change is like believing in sunrises and sunsets. They all happen, have happened, and will continue to happen. It’s not all that daring just because the time frame is different. As I’ve posted elsewhere, even if true, the effects of global warming will be the slowest moving catastrophe in recent history. In one of the breathlessly panicked forecasts I’ve read we’re told that sea level will soon rise by a fraction of an inch a year. This would allow more than enough time for a responsible government led by grownups (read that ‘not liberals’) to respond. The people could evacuate entirely, move to a higher elevation, or (far more likely) postpone the inevitable by a massive spending project on a system of dikes and levees.

Even if none of this works and coastal cities are destroyed, don’t cry! Celebrate! You’re environmentalists for Gaia’s sake! You hate cities anyway. This also has the additional benefit of making the land you bought out in the boondocks, to get away from the human blight, into highly desirable beach property. You can sell it on the sly, and become filthy rich, all while hypocritically condemning the capitalist system. You know! Just like all of those people you slavishly vote for.

More seriously, few people I know seriously deny climate change. The climate has always changed, and will always continue to do so. The question is whether humans caused it. The, answer of course not. It’s an ongoing process. Well then, do humans make it worse? Probably, but only to an insignificant level. About the same way that coupling one extra boxcar to a 100-car train makes the wreck worse if it jumps the tracks. In other words, it only matters if you addicted to shame.

I think maybe Obama and McCain should share a campaign slogan this cycle: We’re screwed in ‘08.

Beware of the Unelectable

I’ve been practically rubbing my hands with malicious glee over some of the revelations about Barack Hussein Obama. Why am I so delighted? Because just the little bit that has already been revealed is enough to sink his campaign a 100 times over. Even better, such facts will not discourage the Democrats from making him their candidate. In fact, in their Bizarro World brains it might even encourage it.

Then reality sinks in. Recent history has shown that a terrifying percentage of the electorate is dumber than a Los Angeles jury. Total unelectability is no impediment to getting elected. The election of 1996 proved that. Only months before he won a second term the pundits and talking heads were debating whether Clinton was relevant after the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress. His polls were in the tank and he was routinely described as unelectable. Instead, the country was blighted with 4 more years of the reprobate.

I no longer make predictions. Up till 1996 I had a perfect record. Starting in 1968 as a second-grader I successfully predicted the outcome of every election, including Clinton’s first victory. I based the latter on the sad realization that a whole generation of voters had no recollection of Jimmy Carter and “malaise”. Ah, but predicting 1996 wasn’t even a strain. It simply was outside the realm of possibility for Clinton to get a second term. Yet he did.

That is why I would encourage you not to get complacent. We still live in that Bizarro World that produces two-term Clintons.  We must be because the only two candidates that I believed had the slightest business in the White House are already gone, leaving only liberals and liberal wannabes for the most part. I fear this is going to be another “lesser of two evils” election. Yet again, instead of getting to vote for, we’ll be voting against.

Open Letter to September 12th People

There can only be peace when they will start to love their children more than they hate us.

Golda Meir

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one!

Charles Mackay

I had an unusual and revealing conversation with a friend back during the days of my horribly misspent youth. It was at the beginning of some momentous Republican shaking and moving, probably the election or Reagan in 1980 or the Gingrich Revolution in 1994, I forget which. During this conversation my friend and his spouse were complaining of the hostile rhetoric that was coming from the Conservative Republican side and the lack of a willingness to compromise. In short, the Right was kicking ass and taking names as we used to say in the military. I asked them if they had heard anything they had thought reasonable and they responded by singing the praises of George Will and William F. Buckley.

Now as fine as those two gentleman are, and I’ve read hundreds of their columns, these are a couple of guys who were “Born to be Mild”. Will and Bill are to politics what your grandfather was to your lifestyle in the 1970s. You remember him? The guy that calmly and rationally explained to you why you shouldn’t drink, smoke, carouse, and be promiscuous? Afterwards you smiled, hugged the man, chuckled at his naive innocence and went out partying. Until your non-rational, non-calm father caught you and royally kicked your ass.

So, naturally I explained to my friends that, though we would prefer civil discourse, we were tired of being a perpetual minority party and had realized that we had to get down in the mud and fight for our beliefs kicking and gouging as necessary. In short, we had to act like Democrats to do battle with Democrats. My friend gave me a horrified look and said, I kid you not, “No! Don’t stoop to our level!”

So, to all of you September 12th people, nice is for peacetime and this is not peacetime. I’ve heard the United States compared to a lifeboat that takes in as many survivors as it can. Well, as as anyone who didn’t go to an urban public school can tell you, if you overload the lifeboat it will capsize, so after a point you have to turn people away no matter how much it breaks your heart. Similarly, if you come to find that someone has an icepick and is poking holes in the lifeboat, you throw his ass overboard, and don’t get heartbroken about it. Now, the problem with liberals and/or Democrats, as you well know, is that they’re all about the guy with the icepick.

I know that these are our fellow citizens, for better or for worse, and that you would rather come to some sort of accommodation with them. Who wouldn’t? Unfortunately, that ship has sailed. Of course one should still be civil where possible, but if civility means compromised national security, then civility is a luxury we can’t afford.

Most people have had any number of epiphanies in their lifetimes. Occasionally, some of these are virtual fist-in-the-face experiences where your realize something earthshaking or life changing, something that you just can’t believe you didn’t see before. It can be any number of things: your girlfriend has been exploiting you, that troublesome spouse never had any intention of changing, your parents have been manipulating you with intentionally bad advice, or maybe just that you were in the wrong career for the wrong reasons. Someone may have warned you along the way, or maybe you even “knew” it, but with a little “k”, on an intellectual, but superficial level. I’m talking about the experience when you finally KNOW it to the very marrow in your bones.

My most recent experience with that last phenomenon had to be with one of Rush Limbaugh’s favorite phrases. That being, “These people have to be defeated.” The people in question being the Left in general and, in our context here, September 10th people in particular. I’ve heard him say it for years now and I’ve always known he was right, but I knew with a little “k”. I figured if I stayed informed, voted for the best candidates, and had the courage to confront people spreading lies, then I was doing my part. In the years after the horrifying events of that day I’ve suffered from quite a bit of cognitive dissonance from watching the Left take undeniable facts that support no-brainer conclusions and arrive at insanely wrong answers. I just couldn’t understand it. That was, of course, precisely the point.

The rhetoric of the Left isn’t meant to be understood. It only has to confuse long enough for them to accomplish their goals. Logic and reason aren’t goals to be sought and upheld. They are barriers to fulfilling their whims and fortunately, for them, can be circumvented. We have a weakness, we logic, reason, and rationality types. We think that deep down in everybody there is a logic, reason, and rationality person just dying to get out. Unfortunately, the modern Leftist is a creature of pure emotion who genuinely considers a poor sap like you to be handicapped with “rigid linear thinking”, or as you and I call it, sanity. So what’s the epiphany? What is it that you need to KNOW?

You need to know that almost all of these people are beyond reach. You need to know that minds are like concrete, once they’ve set it is almost impossible to reshape them in any fundamental way. Furthermore, the longer it has been since the mind has set the more unyielding it becomes because you’re not just fighting an incorrect idea, you’re fighting an emotional creature that is totally invested in that idea. When people even begin to suspect that the thing they’ve dedicated 30, 40, or 50 years of their lives to is a total sham, the mind slams shut. This is a defense mechanism like the ones you see where the 70-year old scientist who was barking up the wrong tree on his research dedicates all his remaining years to denouncing the 30-year old scientist who saw the mistake. So it is with the Left. Do you really expect someone on the Left to stand up and admit, “Wow! We spent trillions and trillions of taxpayer dollars on antipoverty programs and increased poverty. Man, is there ever egg on our face!”?

So, if you want to live in a world where terrorism and rape rooms are the fault of terrorists and rapists instead of Western Civilization, KNOW this, Liberal Democrats are like zombies, you can’t do anything for them, but you can keep them from eating the brains of other innocent people. To that end I’m planning on going on an indefinite hiatus from just bitching and try to find someplace to actually”do” for the cause. I suggest you do the same thing.

The Liberal Lexicon: “D” Words and Phrases

The Definitions

1. D—the grade university humanities professors award to self-identified conservative students after they finally learn to keep their mouths shut.
2. Daughter—any female offspring that you are required to support and whose mind and reproductive organs belong to us.
3. Death Penalty:— The immoral taking of life as punishment for murder, rape, treason, and other forms of self-expression. The only known legitimate use of the death penalty was the execution of a multitude of capitalist pigs committing foul deeds in two 110-storey office buildings.
4. Democracy—having recounts until we get the results that we want.
5. Democratic Rebuttal—tantrum.
6. Dialogue—begging our enemies for mercy.
7. Diplomacy—the process of making Faustian bargains.
8. Discrimination—freedom of association.
9. Disenfranchisement—when Democracts lose election because our constituents are either too stupid to use a voting machine or put their eyes out with the punch card stylus.
10. Diversity— the condition of various races and ethnicities all having the same opinions.

Handy Tip 11

When a Democrat utters any phrase or sentence with the word “social” in it you should put your hand over your wallet and start backing slowly toward the nearest exit.

Open Letter to September 10th People

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without a government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

Thomas Paine, “Common Sense”

Now that the Left, now virtually synonymous with the Democratic Party, has finally regained control of Congress, I find it amusing that they have suddenly discovered bipartisanship, civil discourse, and rational debate. The situation reminds me of my childhood when certain relatives and neighborhood hangers-on were such sticklers for rules and good sportsmanship–when they were “it”, or had the ball. Otherwise, it was a Darwinian dog-eat-dog world. Naturally, being Leftists, you think everyone but yourselves are too stupid to know whats going on. That being, of course, that now that you’re back on top you’ll be wanting to resume pretending to accept our values so that you can use them against us.

I will say only two things about your victory in the off-year elections. One, congratulations. Two, don’t make the mistake of wallowing in hubris and believing that the electorate mandated your philosophies or agendas. Our people got brutally spanked for the sin of “going native”. In other words, they started acting like you. I give you this advice only because I know you’ll never take it.

As you’ve probably noticed, you aren’t getting many takers. That’s because we have long since realized that being civil and trying to engage the Left in rational debate is the intellectual and political equivalent of bringing a dull rusty butter knife to a gunfight. Yes, grim necessity requires that we sink to your level. Sad, but necessary.

Obviously, I don’t speak for every Vast Right Wing Conspirator, but I do speak for quite a few, and we are sick of pretending that you guys aren’t idiots. Or insane, Or insane idiots. Insanity has been occasionally defined as doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different outcome. This behavior is very nearly the Democratic Party’s perennial platform. No matter how many times your ideas fail, you are always ready to slap a fresh coat of paint on the same old disasters, give it a new name, and proclaim it to be some kind of innovation. You never seem to suspect that the only ones you’re fooling are yourselves. You remind us of the old joke about the dim-witted person who constantly beats his head against a brick wall because it feels so good when he stops.

Top 10 Reasons Liberal Democrats Fear Social Security Reform

Top 10 Reasons Liberal Democrats Fear Social Security Reform

The Savior of All Working Men and Women
Bow down and worship me Republican dogs.

1. If Social Security dies they’ll have to admit that nothing good came out of the New Deal.
2. The ghost of Eleanor Roosevelt told Hillary it was a bad idea.
3. Concern that the elderly can still swing a bat.
4. They’ll lose their best means of disguising tax increases.
5. It’s fun to watch retirees grovel for help.
6. If things get better it will be even harder to convince the voters that they can’t live without the Democratic Party.
7. Reagan thought it was a good idea.
8. Osama bin Laden sent an e-mail saying that Allah thinks it’s a bad idea.
9. The fervent belief that transfer payments are good for the economy.
10. Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s ghost told them if they would save it he would run for another term.

Exploring Two of Hillary Clinton’s Multitudinous Faces

Memorandum

From: The Memo Writer
Topic: Hillary Clinton’s Sudden Concern for High Fuel Prices

Abstract: News reports today indicate that Hillary Clinton has issued a recommendation that the government release fuel from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for ease rising prices. Management has noticed that, as usual, this cynical gesture has generated an epidemic of warm fuzzy feelings and a plague of giddy “aws” from staff with short memories. Staff members with longer memories but suffering from Chronic Political Gullibility Syndrome are experiencing anxious feelings they can’t identify. To alleviate these problems, management requires all USA staff to read the following:

Item 1: Hillary’s suggestion is pure political posturing. Hillary, and others like her, have always maintained that Americans pay too little for fuel.

Item 2: Liberal Democrats are notorious for waxing poetic about the “$5 to $7 per gallon” that Europeans pay during price run-ups.

Item 3: Any Liberals objection to the present run-up is because none of the run-up is the result of the heavy additional taxation they recommend during period of low fuel prices.

Item 4: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, born in a fit of crisis-induced political posturing, is for emergencies. Emergencies are understood to be disruptions in fuel supply that would immobilize the military and law enforcement, disrupt shipments of food or medicine, or that shut off the heat and lights in January. Your vacation to Maui will never qualify as an emergency no matter how big of a fit you throw.

Item 5: The reserve isn’t as big as you think. As of November 8, 2007, the SPR has 694.7 million barrels of crude oil stored. Management knows that number sounds big, but if withdrawn at the maximum possible rate, the reserve would be exhausted in 57 days. Just in case you’re a registered Democrat, that’s less than two months.

Item Six: Presently, the United States imports about 12 million barrels of oil per day—that’s per day! The SPR only has the capacity to withdraw 4.4 million barrels per day. A total disruption of our imported supply would result in a fuel deficit of approximately 8 million barrels a day—per day! For those of you who weren’t alive in the 1970s, or were too young to remember, let the voice of experience tell you that a smaller deficit sucked more than you can possibly imagine.

Item Seven: A politically motivated release of fuel from the SPR will do nothing to make the situation better, it will only make you feel better, just like all previous politically motivated releases.

Item Eight: By now you’ve probably asked: If all of this is true, then why does Hillary want to do it? The reason is that most of you think short term while Hillary, for all of her other faults, thinks long term. Hillary wants to be president. Why? Because it is the ultimate position in the world for engaging in social engineering, which has always been Hillary’s goal in life. To be president, she has to get elected, at least for now. She doesn’t want to face an election with a populace paying $5 or more per gallon for gasoline. Especially not against an opponent on record as advocating increasing domestic fuel supplies and refining capacity.

Item Nine: Hillary, just like Bill, doesn’t give a damn about you and never will. After she is safely ensconced in office, she will be perfectly content to let all of you, even you loyal Democrats in the Rust Belt, freeze to death in the dark. It will be a small price to pay to realize Hillary’s Utopian vision for the world.

Item Ten: Most of the crude oil held in the SPR is highly polluting “sour” crude. So, at least for a little while, you’ll have to choose between cleaner air and luxuries like electricity and transportation.

Item Eleven: As long as the Champagne is chilled and the engines on Air Force One are singing happily, you will only matter for one day in November every four years.

Management recommends you study and remember these items as there will be a test given on November 4, 2008.

Unexceptional Americans

Who are the Unexceptional Americans. Unexceptional Americans are those pseudo-Americans who strive to place the brass ring of mediocrity within reach of every fellow citizen.

I’ve been reading up some on the concept of American Exceptionality. It’s probably easier to explain than define as shown by this quote from Wikipedia:

American exceptionalism is the idea that the United States and the American people hold a special place in the world, by offering opportunity and hope for humanity, derived from a unique balance of public and private interests governed by constitutional ideals that are focused on personal and economic freedom. Political science defines it as a presence of unique traits in the United States, such as high levels of religiosity and the failure of socialist parties, that do not correlate with national characteristics in other industrialized and democratic countries.

Or, in a nutshell, we’re a unique people doing things in our own unique way, and it works for us so well that we think that we should serve as a role model for the world. If you’re a Leftist, this is a bad thing. Even if they aren’t aware of it, I believe most Americans operate under some form of this philosophy. Unfortunately, few of them own networks or newspaper conglomerates—or have tenure for that matter.

As a nation, we’re pretty much the closest thing the world has ever seen to a meritocracy, though we fall far too short, far too often. If you’re a Leftist, this is a bad thing. The idea that things should be distributed to people on the basis of merit boggles many a Liberal mind. Just like the concept of a person who works twice as much getting paid twice as much.

Why would the United States be unique among nations? Because it is the Enlightenment’s only child. I found this best stated while reading some Objectivist material (Rand, Peikoff, and the like). It was said that the United States was “the last dying gasp of the Enlightenment”. Soon after that the intelligentsia would be thumbing their collective noses at Enlightenment ideals and the world would be hearing about the proletariat, class struggles, bourgeoisie, noble savages, etc.

The problem is that the Left, for all their education and worldliness, never really picked up on the fact that the institutions of the United States, with the possible exception of religion, are the new kids on the block. Throughout history, the Left, or their equivalents in other times, keep “repainting” and “renaming” the same old crap and then convincing themselves it’s “new and improved”. In the Leftist Nirvana, some people exist for the sake and convenience of other people and are coerced to due their duty in that regard, usually those cursed with intelligence and ability.

In our nation of course we have (at least partially) capitalism, property rights, universal suffrage, democratically elected representative republicanism, checks and balances, a civilian controlled military, limits on police power, and too much more to mention. These are the new ideas historically speaking. No matter how hard the Left tries to convinces us otherwise.

This is all a good thing. I like the idea of living in a country where I can make my own mistakes and make my own way and even start all over again if need be. I have never understood why most people want to blend into the herd, seem to crave the anonymity in fact. I don’t know. Maybe being a Liberal in the United States is like being a Muslim in the 21st Century. It’s hard to hang onto your most basic values and beliefs when everything around you proves that it’s a lie. What do you think?