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.

Going John Galt

I’ve been delighted to see some activity on the Net from people who are interested in taking a more proactive approach to the Obamageddon situation. Rather than just sit around passively and wait for people to come to their senses, something I’ve discovered never happens, they are talking up means of choking off the lifeblood of Leftist ideology, stolen money.

To that end, they’ve suggested “Going John Galt”. John Galt being the main, but rarely seen hero of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged who breaks the back of an oppresive socialist government by convincing the productive people of the world to stop producing.

There are three flavors of “Going John Galt” that I’ve heard of so far:

1. The John Galt-Intentionally reducing one’s income so as to fall to a lower tax bracket and thus reduce tax revenue to the government.
2. The John Galt in Place or Static John Galt-If one can’t reduce one’s income and survive, then steps are taken to ensure that income remains static. That way a person remains in the same tax bracket and produces no additional taxable income thereby reducing tax revenue to the government.
3. The Reverse John Galt-Those who can live off of the coming government benefits stop producing altogether and make themselves an additional burden to the social welfare system, thus draining revenue that would be sucked up by the Exploiters and Moochers of the Left, and thus hastening the collapse of the untenable system.

These are just three ways we can revolt against what’s coming. I’m sure you can think of more. The gist is, do everything you can to choke off renenue to the government and everything you can to increase expenditures.

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.

Where to Start?

Well friends, it’s here. Like you, I had hoped America could dodge this bullet one more time but, alas, it was not to be. Instead, the bullet has struck Uncle Sam at high velocity directly in the center of his forehead. The hysterical, irrational cheering of the assassin’s supporters will probably drown out the thud as the nation’s body hits the ground.

I didn’t blog for a while because I needed to know how this election would turn out in order to know what needed to be said. After that, I didn’t blog because I was too sick to my stomach to do it. After that, the most significant reason of all. I just didn’t know where to start.

I didn’t know where to start not because of a lack of things to say. Rather, I was stumped by the plethora of things that needed to be said and all needing to be said first. My indecision censored me more effectively than Obamafascism ever will. So I decided to follow some old advice I got so long ago I’ve forgotten the source or the exact words, but to paraphrase: If life gives you more than you think you can chew, stick your fork in somewhere and start chewing.

The current Messiah and future Pariah’s election is a swift kick in the crotch of the nation. By the time the gullible realize what they haved done, it will be too late. The One will have 2 or 3 years left on what we all hope will be his single term. Yes, things will get worse before they get better. That was a foregone conclusion anyway. But now, things will be much, much worse before they get better in a much more distant future.

There is one Pollyannaish high point though. I’ve often felt adrift and without a overarching purpose in life. Not because there weren’t lofty goals and worthy battles to be fought, far from it. It just always seemed that the loftiest goals and worthiest battles had all been fought and won. B. Hussein Obama gives real Americans just one gift. The gift of a worthy cause. If The Pariah accomplishes even a tiny fraction of his agenda we will have a multitude of fresh villainies to struggle against, along with all the old ones he will gleefully and ignorantly bring back.

Don’t submit. Don’t succumb to despair. Don’t go quietly into that good night. The Pariah’s mind is poisoned with toxic ideology. He is too arrogant and self-absorbed to see it coming. Be vigilant for every bit of exposed vulnerable flesh in his hide, then latch on like a rabid Pit Bull and never, never let go.

For those of you that love this country. For those of you that love and admire its founding principles. For those that adore this child of the Enlightenment. Where to start? Anywhere you can find an opening.

I swear by my life and my love of it that Der Obamaführer will not prevail.

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.

The Liberal Lexicon: “G” 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.

The Definitions

1. Gay—A term that formerly meant “very happy” but now designates someone who engages in male-on-male sex, while feminists find this undesirable because it makes not one but two men happy, it is still pretty nifty.
2. Germany—a formerly fierce European nation that is gradually becoming more effeminate than the French.
3. Girl—future victim of male exploitation.
4. God— the planet Earth, which we are not fit to walk upon.
5. Greed—An antisocial desire to keep money one has earned.
6. Gridlock— when conservatives don’t roll over and play dead.
7. Gulf War, First— A Republican temper tantrum resulting in the death of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi social workers who were just visiting their neighbors.
8. Gulf War, Second— A childish attempt by a son to impress his father by invading a sovereign country, killing innocent foreign tourists, and deposing a kindly stateman who had been duly elected by 100% of eligible voters.

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.

Yawning While Uncle Sam Bleeds Out

A few days ago Condoleezza Rice stated that America would be just fine under an Obama administration. That, of course, depends on how things go down and especially on how you define “just fine”. It has been repeatedly observed that Obama is a cipher. Cipher being, for those of you too lazy to click on a free on-line dictionary is a zero; one that has no weight, worth, or influence; a nonentity; a method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning; a coded message. One couldn’t ask for a more thorough description of the man as we know and understand him today. He is a ghost, a phantom, a shadow in the dark at best.

You have to ask yourself, “How does a man get to be in his late 40s and the presidential nominee of the largest political party in the United States, and do it all while leaving little more than vapors as his background?”

I have been mocked by a few folks for believing that John McCain would be a good president. Which is strange, because I don’t believe that. I believe John is the classical example of the lesser of two evils. The only candidates I could enthusiastically support were the first ones eliminated, which should have told me more than it did about the state of intellectual obliviousness prevalent in this election cycle. I don’t believe that John McCain would be a good president. I just believe he’ll screw the country up less and that the mess he leaves will be fixable—mostly.

Obama is like some physical phenomenon that can’t be observed directly, atoms for example, and we can only learn about him through indirect means. The man’s critics have been accused of practicing guilt by association but when that’s all you’ve got, that’s all you’ve got. Besides, if I find out that your best friend spends most of his time hanging out with drug cartel hit men, that tells me a lot about your friend—and you. One only has to go out one degree of separation to find a myriad of two-legged cockroaches scurrying away from the light. Saul Alinsky, for example. and in his case a list of his disciples is a veritable rogues gallery in its own right.

So is Condoleezza right? Will America be just fine? As I said, that all depends. If the man gets too cocky and overreaches himself in his efforts to make America a socialist paradise and just another neighborhood in the global village, I say yes. We’ll have a few really, really bad years. The nation and Congress will realize their mistake and dig in, marginalizing him until he can be voted out of office. America would be truly just fine. We would only have wasted a few years which is small when you consider the 1930s or the 1960s and realize that, as a nation, we’ve wasted entire decades and survived.

But what about the far more likely case? Obama gets what he wants while the unthinking herds of the electorate get what they deserve. Then we get to the matter of definition. If you define “just fine” as American still existing pretty much as is at the end of his term, then yes we’ll be just fine. If you define “just fine” as the existence of some political entity calling itself “The United States of America” a century or so down the line, then yes we’ll be just fine.

But what if you define “just fine” differently? What if you define it as a constitutional republic with freely elected representatives? What if you define it as a sovereign nation-state actively seeking to achieve its best interest in the long-term? What if you define it as a distinctive English-speaking culture that stresses the traditional ideals of Western Civilization, especially the Anglo-American model? A culture that stresses individualism and self-reliance? A free-market economy where one is taxed lightly and only for direct benefits that he receives that can’t be provided by the free market, such as national defense and protection from people who think like Obama?

Well, friends if you define “just fine” that way—as I do—then we are well and truly screwed.

The more I study the man, the more concerned I become. A similar reaction to what I’ve experienced in my studies of Islam and Muslims. (The more you know, the more you wish you didn’t know.) No, Obama wouldn’t kill the country by his second day in office, nor by the end of—God forbid!—his second term. But he could very well be the guy who nicks that artery that allows Uncle Sam to slowly bleed out over the next forty or fifty years. Don’t believe it? Look back fifty years to the 1950s and what could and couldn’t be done then, what was thinkable and unthinkable.

Science fiction author Robert Heinlein wrote a number of stories described as being “if this goes on…” in nature. I submit that if the country continues on its current trajectory that within most of our lifetimes, we could all find ourselves Strangers in a Strange—and Hostile—Land.

The Memo Writer’s Observations on Life #1

1. Women will always hack off their hair and switch to frumpy clothes after you marry, then claim they just wanted to look nice for you.
2. Auto mechanics will always think that you’re an idiot.
3. Liberals will club you in the head repeatedly in you refuse to join their peace protest.
4. Radical Liberals abhor violence and are willing to commit any act of violence to prevent it.
5. Environmentalists firmly believe that by burning SUVs, multi-million dollars homes, ski resorts, industrial sites, and other places of employment constitutes helping their fellow man.
6. Liberals who successfully sue tobacco companies will celebrate by firing up a joint and holding the smoke until they faint.
7. Cashiers at fast-food restaurants can’t speak English.
8. Cashiers anywhere are not hired for their math skills.
9. Complaining about cashiers does no good because the manager can’t speak English.
10. In California you can entered into a long-term intimate relationship with a goat but adjusting the fast idle screw on your carburetor will get you the death penalty.
11. Celebrities are unimportant people who make their living pretending to be important people.
12. People who violently oppose petroleum drilling, transportation, exploration, pipelines, tankers, storage facilities, and refineries bitch the most about high fuel prices.
13. People who live in states with the most punitive anti-business laws attribute their unemployment to corporate greed and government conspiracies.
14. Nobody will ever live long enough to see an unscrewed-up order at a fast-food restaurant drive-through.
15. Liberals will always believe that the only justification for having a military is as a jobs program.
16. Drivers in New Mexico have their turn-signal levers welded in the off position.
17. Women with large breasts want small ones, those with small breast want large ones, medium-sized women can go either way, and they all want you to pay for the surgery.
18. Men will never end their quest for a virgin nymphomaniac.
19. Ex-wives will still call you and demand that you do chores around what used to be your house.
20. Cars only break down when you take a short-cut through the most dangerous part of the city.

Citizens and Starship Troopers

Recently a memory popped into my head and I felt compelled to write about it. It’s the sort of thing that will probably earn me friends and enemies in equal measure. I was busy letting the border situation and amnesty nonsense burn a hole in my stomach lining when the memory of reading a certain book popped into my head. Perhaps it was the rose petal strewn “Path to Citizenship” proposed by the professional dullards of the Left.

The book was Robert A. Heinlein’s “Starship Troopers” and I stumbled across it in the school library when I was 15. It was a pivotal moment in my life and affected a great change in my thinking and beliefs. I devoured the book and was delighted to find a chunk of common sense in a world seemingly devoid of it in 1975. Though the effect on me lingered, the memory of the book itself faded over time. I was occasionally reminded of it from time to time. But mostly it was lost in the deep caverns of my mind.

When I was 25 it popped up again in a Mainstream Media article I was reading and was referred to as, “the highly controversial Starship Troopers.” I was totally surprised that there could be any controversy so I asked fellow science fiction people about it. Many of them were hostile to it as well.

A little research and I learned it had been roundly condemned as Fascist propaganda, among other things. The society it described was very disciplined and had a common social order. The society was pro-military, pro-business, and pro- just about everything a conservative or libertarian believes in.

But the main sticking point was that citizenship was not automatic. Citizenship had to be earned through personal achievement or public service, frequently military service, and we all know how the Left feels about that. Non-citizens were guaranteed specified rights, but could not vote. To be citizens, one had to have something invested in their nation, be it time, money, blood, sweat, or tears.

Ever since I was 15 I have thought that idea had a great deal of merit, and not just because I’m a military veteran. It has been noted that in a democracy, the plebes will “vote themselves bread and circuses” till there is none left. Most of the immigrants I’ve meet, no matter how nice they were, firmly believe in the “zero-sum” theory of wealth, including even those from English speaking countries. They want their slice of the pie and will vote for whoever will slice it for them.

My point is that automatic citizenship, even for the native-born, has its downside. Though I’m not sure that policy should be changed. What I do know is that a blanket amnesty would create a huge mob of voters all clamoring for their piece of pie and with no concept of wealth creation and capital accumulation. We wound up with a semi-socialist government during the Red Decade of the 30s, and we are still trying to slough off that drag on the nation. Uncontrolled immigration, blanket amnesties, and vote for illegals would result in an even “redder” decade, or longer.

If I was calling the shots, I would end automatic citizenship under certain conditions, as well as dual citizenship. Automatic citizenship could only be conferred if both your parents are native or naturalized. If either parent was a foreign national or an illegal, citizenship could not be conferred at birth. If I could push it through I would insist on some kind of service to the country as a token of loyalty by those who didn’t qualify for automatic citizenship.

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.

Hispano-Fascism

The Hispano-Fascist Flag

Things have been slow here in the blogosphere, so I took the time to do some reading up on all things immigration. I spent hours on it in fact. I checked out the American Patrol Report and spent some time cruising MEChA’s web site. My reading took me from one extreme to the other, from laughter at the lunacy of their positions to gut-wrenching concern that so many people believe the tripe they’re spewing.

My calling them Hispano-Fascists isn’t just a ploy to annoy them or make them angry. They generate plenty of those emotions on their own. No, I call them that because the hatred and bile that spews out of their mouths reminds me ever so much of the words of other fascists from the past. I’m certain of one thing if nothing else. If it walks like a fascist, talks like a fascist, thinks like a fascist, and acts like a fascist, then it’s a damn fascist!

I’ve always subscribed to the theory that as soon as someone in a debate compares his opponent to Hitler or the Nazis, he or she just lost the debate. Very rarely is the comparison legitimate. Usually, it’s just a rhetorical technique to inflame someone else’s passion. But in the case of the deluded Reconquistas and certifiable psycho MEChA sociopaths, the comparison is dead-on.

The blather about the bronze race and the people of the sun invading and occupying my little piece of the country in order to fill out their inevitable destiny. That sounds an awful lot like invading Poland to get a little “living room” for the “master race” on the way to creating the world-encompassing German order. I say if the swastika fits, they should wear it.

I think that the invaders are getting a little bit too cocky for their own good. Just because our government doesn’t see any need to protect us and keep us sovereign, it doesn’t mean that we’ll just stand by while it happens. I fear the pussies in our government will let this continue until the rank and file citizens have no choice but to act on their own. I don’t know about you folks, but there is no way in hell I’m going to live as a second-class citizen in my own country. Nor will I stand idly by while people who have no clue as to what makes the country work reduce it to third-world nation status.

Remember, Mexico isn’t poor because of lack of resources, lack of labor, or any intrinsic genetic flaws. They are poor because they run things like Mexicans. And no, I’m not saying they don’t have the right to live however they want. What I am saying is that the way you live carries certain consequences with it. If you choose a self-destructive path, then you have no one to blame but yourself. And if you choose not to see the connection between your condition and your actions, that’s your problem too. However, your choices in no way obligate me to let you come to my country and impose those choices on me.

If things suck down there, that’s not my problem. Even more so, It’s not our problem. I would suggest that you stop electing kleptocrats for a nice beginning.

Hillary Unspun

Memorandum

From: The Memo Writer
Topic: Hillary Clinton vs. Women (and Decency)

The sustained slamming of Hillary Clinton in the previous post felt so good—almost orgasmicly good—management has decided it deserves some pure self-indulgence.

Item One: Hillary is the worst enemy a woman could ever have, or at least she and people like her. Women have legitimate grievances, none of which Hillary gives a damn about. On the issue of Women’s Rights, or the more accurate term of Women’s Well-being, Hillary couldn’t care less. She is an generic exploiter, not even extraordinary at that endeavor. She finds a legitimate issue or cause and latches onto it like a lamprey latches on to some hapless fish. Her motivation is not the cause, but pure naked self-interest.

Item Two: Despite mocking homemakers and mothers, and deriding Tammy Wynette’s devotion to her husband, Hillary has taken the most basic of the cynical gold digger’s roads to success. She hitched her wagon to a man’s rising star. Then she subordinated her ambitions to his in anticipation of a big and easier pay off later.

Item Three: Hillary is an enabler of staggering magnitude. Bill Clinton has subjected her to a lifetime of disrespect and countless humiliations with his myriad (and none too skillfully concealed) infidelities. She is known to have reacted with anger at the Fornicator in Chief, but when the time comes for action she lashes out viciously, not at him, but at the women. Even those who weren’t willing. Strangely, especially those who weren’t willing.

Item Four: She has to be the crappiest mother that ever existed. With the examples she has set for her daughter I suspect that Chelsea employs a full-time staff of counselors.

Item Five: Hillary and others of her ilk use their seething misandry to pump life into the moribund feminist movement. They then use that movement to gain favor with bubble-bound university types, inside-the-beltway refugees from reality, and frothing-at-the-mouth lesbians. The end result is girls who grow up unable to respect their fathers, brothers, husbands, or even their own male children. A situation guaranteed to perpetuate female misery.

Item Six: Hillary is a woman who is known to scream and curse at and demean her own staff, as well as those who are there to keep her alive. This is a woman who felt justified in vandalism and taking national heirlooms as souvenirs when they left the White House. Be honest with yourself; how do you really think she feels about the single mother working at a below-the-poverty-level job and living in a single-wide because she can’t afford anything else. The truth is worse than you can imagine. She doesn’t think or feel anything about it. Those people are of an entirely different species and beneath her notice—unless mom doesn’t pay her taxes.

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?

It’s Not Racism—It’s a Software Problem

It’s a pity that we don’t teach rhetoric in school anymore. Not too long ago it was considered one of the 7 constituents of a good classical education. These days not much is left of that curriculum and what is left has been bled dry of substance by pseudo-enlightened teaching methods.

I’ve taken a course on rhetoric, which was helpful, but I’ve learned the most about it by countless hours of pondering mind-bendingly inane pronouncements trumpeted by people who should have known better, and the enthusiastic and unbelievably uncritical acceptance by all the nodding heads in attendance.

The best working definition of rhetoric that I’ve come across is as follows: The art and science of persuasion. Note that word: persuasion. This has nothing to do with logic or logical argument whereby, if properly done, one arrives at a correct conclusion. Rhetoric is convincing someone that some conclusion is the correct one whether it is or not. Considerable rhetoric has been expended talking teenage girls out of their virginity in the backseats of cars. Just about any abandoned single mother struggling to get her life back on track will tell you that going along wasn’t the correct conclusion.

It’s been a long road for me, but I’ve figured out our adversaries well enough that I can spot the flaws in the reasoning and their rhetorical legerdemain fairly easily. However, I see many good folks around me struggling with the Left’s tricky arguments, then shrugging their shoulders and going on, leaving the asinine pronouncements unchallenged. For all our good qualities, American’s lack of ambition toward intellectual rigor is a serious national flaw. One that scares me more than a little.

Leaving the jargon aside for the time being, I’ve noticed two things that people on the Right/Conservative/Libertarian side need to watch out for. First are false dichotomies, or taking something that has to be considered as a whole and splitting it into parts that can’t stand on their own so as to knock them down more easily. Second is the flip-side of the first. Taking separate elements and deliberately conflating them so as to use valid (maybe) criticisms of one to drag down the other. All of which brings me to my point. Racism, culturalism, nationalism, and any other number of –isms are frequently entirely separate issues that need to be considered, debated, and accepted or rejected as separate entities.

Conflating racism and culturalism is one of the biggest problems today and a current favorite rhetorical tap dance of the Left. The Left insists on treating these as two sides of the same coin making it impossible to condemn one without condemning the other. This, of course is insane in general, and never more insane than when it is applied to the United States.

Racism against Hispanics? Hispanics are not a race. The word itself has traditionally meant Spanish-speaking, thereby referring to a linguistic group as opposed to a genetically similar group of people. A conveniently forgotten fact is that Spain, the source of Spanish, is a Western European country, further west than England, the source of the “Gringo” language. Spaniards are Caucasians.

What about Latinos, as in Latin America? Well, what about it” In Latin America ethnicities range from pure Caucasian (who are the elites that run the show and own just about everything), through pure Amerindians, through Mestizos (mixed race people) to black folks. Besides, I’m not so sure we should call it “Latin” America. After all, for the Amerindians, they didn’t pursue anything Latin, it came and conquered them.

What about Islam? The same principal applies. Racially, Muslims range from the whitest of Caucasians in Eastern Europe, a relic of Islamic imperial conquest, to the darkest of Africans on that continent. Islam is not a race; it is a fascist ideology masquerading as a religion.

When I try to explain the difference to someone, I usually use a computer analogy. Culture is to race as software is to hardware. Despite what poverty pimps and professional grievance-mongers may tell you, racism is all but beaten and progress is still made everyday. If the Republican Party is the Party of hate and the status quo, why are so many of them begging a black woman to be their presidential candidate in 2008? Why did Walter Williams, a famous and distinguished black economist, go on the radio and announce to white liberals, “You’re forgiven, you can stop acting stupid now”?

You would have to have been living under a rock to avoid people of minority persuasions that have long since disproved the “hardware” theory of racism. I have met people of all races who are significantly smarter than I am, and I dwell on the lonely fringes of the right side of the bell curve.

So what is the crucial difference? Software. Or as it applies to human beings—culture. Millions of people want to immigrate to the United States to partake in its freedoms, material wealth, and opportunities. Sadly, many of these folks no longer want to assimilate. In fact, they consider it an outrage that they would be expected to do so. Rather the existing culture is expected to change to accommodate their presence. In essence they expect this country to load their cultural “software” over our own. All this reminds me very much of my experience teaching in a rural school. Frequently, parents would move there hoping to get their children away from the bad big city influences. More often than not, those children were the big city influences. I recall one girl in particular who lasted only 4 days before being arrested for dealing cocaine.

So, what does this all mean? I suppose somebody has to have the guts to say it, so I will. Mexicans, your hardware is fine, just as good as anybody else. Your software, on the other hand, sucks. When you come here, legally of course, check your cultural baggage at the door.

There’s an old saying that says something like, “If the people knew what it was that they wanted, they wouldn’t want it.” The same applies here. If American culture is swamped and displaced by Mexican culture, or just about any other for that matter, in 10 years this country will be a “has-been” like France. In 20 years it would be a Third World nation. Then who would the rest of the world “borrow” money from then?

Global Warming: The World’s Slowest Moving Disaster

A Reuters story I read recently (link died unfortunately) reports that due to Global Warming sea levels could rise 4 and 1/2 feet by the year 2100. They also say this is much worse than expected. Let’s put this is perspective. A quick calculation show that when averaged out, the disaster will be occurring at slightly over a half inch per year. This is their worst case scenario.

This will not be the end of civilization, even if true, and I’m still skeptical about that. That pace is slow enough that even Democrats could adapt and we all know what evolutionary dead-ends they are. Yes, over a long period of time things would have to be moved, beach front property will be lost as new beach front property is created, and a few more rich people’s stilt homes will slide down hills they should never have been built on. But in the end, Denver will still be there, as will every town or city that I’ve ever lived in.

Wake up and smell the coffee (or, if you’re a Liberal, regain consciousness and take another hit on your crack pipe). The Environmental Movement is a fraud. As many other people have observed, it has become the hiding ground for anti-capitalist Leftists and “Back to the jungle” Luddites whose ideas no longer have any cachet.