tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44953021469563362222024-03-05T03:49:05.990-08:00What Was LostI SING what was lost and dread what was won,
I walk in a battle fought over again,
My king a lost king, and lost soldiers my men;
Feet to the Rising and Setting may run,
They always beat on the same small stone. -- William Butler YeatsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-79435983128110682742011-09-15T08:20:00.001-07:002011-09-15T08:33:57.389-07:00Yet another felony that everyone will be guilty of<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903285704576562294116160896.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Darticle">Should Faking a Name on Facebook Be a Felony?</a> <br /><br />This new expansion and re-interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act would make felons of us all. This is the point.<br /><br />Laws don't write themselves. Politicians don't draft legislation because they are bored. Every bill has a purpose behind it, even if that purpose is not obvious.<br /><br />When everyone is a criminal because it is impossible to live without violating the law, enforcement becomes a political exercise. This law, and other laws that criminalize the trivial, allows agents of the state to selectively target people they or their masters don't like.<br /><br />A free society is one in which it is safe to be unpopular. This is never more true than when it is the government that dislikes you. When the government has the power to arbitrarily charge virtually anyone with a felony, that society is not free. A nation in which citizens cower silently before the state and its agents, keep their heads down and walk briskly, hoping they will not be noticed - is not free. <br /><br />Any government that is the enemy of the people and the usurper of their rights is a criminal enterprise.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-17405996133980387222011-09-14T18:06:00.000-07:002011-09-14T22:03:27.504-07:00Bachman listens to a lunatic and makes a fool of herself in the process<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2011/09/13/bachmann-gardasil-causes-mental-retardation/comment-page-7/#comment-4915041">Bachmann: Gardasil causes “mental retardation”</a><br /><br />Bachman:<br /><br /><blockquote>There’s a woman who came up crying to me tonight after the debate. She said her daughter was given that vaccine. She told me her daughter suffered mental retardation as a result of that vaccine.</blockquote><br /><br />Here we go again with the neo-luddite vaccination made my kid a weirdo nonsense. This is what happens when superstition masquerades as reason. <br /><br />I suspect the woman making the initial claim to Bachman was being dishonest in the first place. There is a contingent of people who fear these vaccines because the disease they protect against is sexually transmitted. Rather than rationally fearing the disease itself, they fear that which inoculates against it. Why? Because even more than cancer and death, they fear that their daughters will have sex. Something that protects against cancer and death transmitted through sex, is irrationally seen as something that promotes sex, which is anathema to them. <br /><br />But they cannot make that argument because normal people are not persuaded by it. No normal person sees something that protects a 12 year old girl from contagious cervical cancer as an incitement for her to go party like a co-ed on girls gone wild. <br /><br />So instead they latch on to anything they can come up with, no matter how ridiculous. They freak out and get emotional, at which point they get stupid. Those who listen to them end up looking stupid as well.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-6906403592980468162011-09-11T20:49:00.000-07:002011-09-11T22:14:10.675-07:00Something to think about on the anniversary of evilA passage from Lee Harris’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743257499/ref=ase_wwwviolentkicom/103-1545606-9973455?v=glance&s=books">Civilization And Its Enemies.</a><br /><blockquote><br /> Forgetfulness occurs when those who have been long inured to civilized order can no longer remember a time in which they had to wonder whether their crops would grow to maturity without being stolen or their children sold into slavery by a victorious foe.<br /> …<br /> They forget that in time of danger, in the face of the Enemy, they must trust and confide in each other, or perish.<br /><br /> They forget, in short, that there has ever been a category of human experience called the Enemy. And that, before 9/11, was what had happened to us. The very concept of the Enemy had been banished from our moral and political vocabulary. An enemy was just a friend we hadn’t done enough for — yet. Or perhaps there had been a misunderstanding, or an oversight on our part — something that we could correct. And this means that that our first task is that we must try to grasp what the concept of the Enemy really means.<br /><br /> The Enemy is someone who is willing to die in order to kill you. And while it is true that the Enemy always hates us for a reason — it is his reason, and not ours.<br /></blockquote>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-13841201288679694162011-09-07T17:11:00.000-07:002011-09-07T17:12:35.591-07:00GovernmentThe legitimate role of government is to regulate interactions between individuals and legal entities where the nature of the interaction is not already agreed upon by the entities in question, and to enforce valid contractual agreements between individuals that were freely entered into. <br /><br />Everything else is extraneous.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-19633354014524869672011-09-04T13:58:00.001-07:002011-09-15T08:36:48.184-07:00Tea Partiers are racists, and other lies from the credentialed left<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/4/academics-tea-partyers-devout-more-likely-racist/">Academics dub tea partyers devout, racist</a><br /><br />Consider the source<br /><br />95% of Political Science faculty are self proclaimed liberal Democrats.<br /><br />The problem isn't that they are wrong. The problem is that they are LYING.<br /><br />It is extremely easy to create push polls to generate the responses that you want to hear. It isn't necessary to lie about the answer when you are asking a dishonest question. Normally reviewers would call you out for this, but not when those reviewers are religiously motivated to agree with your findings. These are also conference papers, which means that they have either not been reviewed, or were rejected by the journals they were submitted to. If the research was truly sound, they'd be published in a respected journal.<br /><br />This is a case of credentialed sophists getting together and agreeing on a set of lies and misrepresentations that are then presented to the public as valid findings. It is also an example of why the humanities are considered a joke. Few people go into political science for legitimate reasons anymore. Those who do virtually never go on to pursue an academic career in the field. The discipline is today almost entirely made up of far left ideologues. Some academics in the humanities are more honest than others, but virtually none of them are conservatives.<br /><br />But that's ok because the only people who believe them are others such as themselves. The Daily Kos echo chamber eats this stuff up, but mainstream Americans are unimpressed. When the ideas and principles that the tea parties believe in are presented to the public honestly, the vast majority of Americans agree with them. On election day the voters are going to pull the lever for the Tea Party because they agree with what we believe in even when they don't know it.<br /><br />Leftists are in trouble because their ideas are bad. The Tea Party represents the rejection of these bad ideas in favor of better ones. I should know because I am the Tea Party. They accuse us of racism because they have no valid arguments to make. If they did, we would be hearing them. They can't argue against the things we actually stand for, the things we actually believe, because our ideas are unassailable. To attack us based on what we actually believe would only succeed in promoting our ideas. So instead they lie about us and call us names.<br /><br />They hate us because we are right, because we are the living embodiment of their own failure to know and live with the truth. <br /><br />http://www.tempeteaparty.orgUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-32956164237044034632011-09-01T15:11:00.001-07:002011-09-01T15:11:25.241-07:00Quote for the day<span style="font-style:italic;">"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency.
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<br />It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president.
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<br />The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.
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<br />The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."
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<br />-Author Unknown </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-20505937286767581672011-09-01T14:47:00.000-07:002011-09-01T14:55:39.271-07:00Return of the Ghost Dancers<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/08/31/wolffe_opposition_to_obama_speech_possibly_based_on_skin_color-comments.html">Wolffe: Opposition To Obama Speech Possibly Based On Skin Color</a>
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<br />The gratuitous use of the race card has exceeded the bounds of mere cliche and entered the realm of self-parody.
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<br />Do they actually think anyone is listening anymore, let alone taking them seriously?
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<br />This kind of nonsense used to make me angry because of how insulting it was, not only to conservatives and libertarians, but to the intelligence of anyone unlucky enough to hear it.
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<br />But now it's gone so far beyond pale that they aren't insulting people like me anymore, but making fools of themselves instead.
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<br />I almost miss the days when leftists actually pretended to have valid arguments to make. I miss their intricate sophistries because at least those arguments had a patina of legitimacy to them. This crap is such obvious nonsense it isn't even worth taking the time to debunk as only a total fool would listen to it.
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<br />I'm reminded of the Ghost Dancer movement among American Indians in the late 19th century. Defeated and broken, some groups devolved into a cult based on circle dancing whose adherents believed would bring back the buffalo and end the expansion of the United States. I don't know what kind of things the Indians chanted, but the chant from the left seems to be "Racism Racism Racism!"
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<br />It isn't going to work for them any better than it did for the Indians.
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-53393634201261671182011-08-29T10:09:00.000-07:002011-08-29T10:17:28.381-07:00A union flunky speaksThis was originally a response to a reader comment that can be found here:
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<br /><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/27/census-data-shows-people-are-moving-from-blue-to-red-states.html#comments">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/27/census-data-shows-people-are-moving-from-blue-to-red-states.html#comments</a>
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The comment itself, from Bob Dobolina:</span>
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<br /><blockquote><span style="font-style:italic;">if the red states are so awesome then why are their "free market" systems not just blown up their economies? I mean if their lower taxes, pro business and family values then they should be just crushing it right? Last I checked that's not the case. The only one that wins out in those states is the companies that are there. Sure as hell isn't the people that work there. it is a fact that red states are welfare states. The are subsidized by the blue states. If their awesome systems really work and are so good then why are welfare states just that?
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<br />Republican foundations of lower taxes, pro business and family values are a good idea but in reality they are failed policies. Like supply side economics. Never worked no matter how many times the right pushes it. It's like a broken record. Cut taxes and regulations and the country will be awesome. Well, it's been going on for 30 years and look what we've got. It's no coincidence that the decline of manufacturing mirrors the decline in unions? Our country was made great on the backs of labor. But conservatives hate labor. The major things we now take for granted were originally created by the sweat and blood of labor. 5 day work week, vacations, sick time, etc.....
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<br />Over the last 30 years we've seen republicans main foundations front and center. And if they are so good then our country should be the crown jewel of the world and the stock market should be over 20k. Kill unions, ease regulations and massively low taxes. But check it out, during that time the rich and companies have seen triple digit increases in profits and pay. The regular folks that make those companies run have see what for gains over that time?
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<br />Zero gains for the working man. Didn't even follow inflation.
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<br />If these basic foundations they say are their core beliefs should be just blowing up our economy. Should be unparalleled prosperity. they've had their way for 30 years and if it works then we should be in a better place now. But no. They're like snake oil salesman. peddling these ideals that sound great but in practice the only benefits they have are for the rich. Record profits and oceans of cash but are those making their way to the regular folks? Nope. Businesses have employees over a barrel. They can pay them anything they want and show them the door if they don't like it. High unemployment is the best time for companies because they can pretty much do whatever they want and people are just happy to have a job.
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<br />Welfare states are red states. Pro business isn't pro worker. there is a difference. But hey, screw the regular people right? If job creators are happy then republicans are happy. Just sad that blue collar workers carry water for people that care zero about them and their families. My blue state dollars are paying for these people that scream self reliance. What a joke. Talk about how the poor are a bunch of slackers with their hands out. Maybe they should put their and in their own pockets when it comes to red state handouts.</span></blockquote>
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<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">My response:</span>
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<br />There is so much wrong with what you've written that I don't even know where to begin. So I'll begin in the middle, then probably shower and go to work.
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<br />The decline in manufacturing does mirror the decline in union membership, but not because the latter caused the former.
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<br />Correlation does not mean causation.
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<br />Besides which, only fools choose to be serfs. That is what union workers generally are. They're unable to make a living on their own because they lack the skills and talents necessary to be independently employable. So they bind themselves together into a group and try to extract as much money as they can for their menial, but necessary, work. I don't hold them in contempt for this as such a development is inevitable. The capital investment most manufacturing requires means that firms can't easily chase the labor market. They set up shop somewhere, and once established cannot instantly move elsewhere just because the people there will work for less.
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<br />But even so this does eventually happen, just not as quickly. Instead of moving existing plants, they expand into these other labor markets and then close the previous plant as it becomes less profitable instead of refurbishing or retooling it when manufacturing processes change. Unions are created to prevent workers from having to compete with each other, but eventually they do, in this case with people in other nations who are willing to work for what would be less here in America, but is actually a good wage over there due to the difference in cost of living.
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<br />There are several consequences of this.
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<br />First, the unit cost of production goes down, making that company more profitable and therefore more competitive. Such companies generally lower the prices offered to consumers. Other firms must then follow suit and find ways to lower their own production costs, or risk failure. So they relocate as well, or go out of business.
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<br />Second these lowered consumer prices means that our money goes further. We can afford to buy more with less money (adjusted for inflation).
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<br />Third, the wages that are being paid to the workers overseas makes those workers more able to purchase goods and services from us, improving the economies of both nations.
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<br />The only people who lose are those whose reluctance or inability to compete in the labor market is what led them into union work in the first place. When you can't get a good paying job based on your own competence and merit, jobs that require neither are your only escape.
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<br />The lesson is to stay in school and to sharpen and hone your skills and abilities so that you are able to support yourself in a field based on individual accomplishment. Doctors, lawyers and engineers belong to professional associations, not unions. There is a reason for this. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-15555795696479950562011-08-29T08:14:00.000-07:002011-08-29T08:19:36.563-07:00Obama can't do the right thing<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2011/08/28/why-obama-cant-support-a-real-jobs-program/">Why Obama Can't Support A Real Jobs Program</a>
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<br />Obama can't do the right thing because it runs counter to what he and other leftists in the Democratic party see as their core mission: do destroy America while pretending to save it and blaming others for the obvious damage they are doing.
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-15190403182368825622011-08-25T15:11:00.000-07:002011-08-25T15:16:13.778-07:00Socialism defined<span style="font-weight:bold;">Socialism: Stealing from Peter to buy votes from Paul.</span>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-80428680104202482742011-08-24T19:36:00.001-07:002011-08-27T23:07:20.107-07:00A leftist tells us what he really thinksI recently bought a copy of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Knowledge-Dismantling-American-Culture/dp/1595230769/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top">The Secret Knowledge</a> by David Mamet. I've not read very much of this book yet, but I like what I'm reading so far. Mamet's prose is terse and could use the help of a good editor in places, but the content of what he says is profound. But this post isn't a review of this book, but a comment on something a reviewer calling himself <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A29GD383IX26C0/ref=cm_cr_rev_detpdp">Ben Bochner</a> wrote on Amazon. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R1O3OF16UOZ2BM/ref=cm_cr_rev_detmd_pl?ie=UTF8&cdForum=FxCKD3QIZE1PUP&cdMsgNo=2&cdPage=1&asin=1595230769&store=books&cdSort=oldest&cdThread=Tx1DABUN9GV8WEF&cdMsgID=Mx2J8WJP3F9GEPR#Mx2J8WJP3F9GEPR">Bochner's post</a> was in response to another poster's critique of Bochner's negative review of the book itself, which can be found <a href="http://www.amazon.com/review/R1O3OF16UOZ2BM/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1595230769&nodeID=&tag=&linkCode=">here</a>.
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<br />Here is what Bochner had to say to the other poster:
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<br /><blockquote>Be careful, Mr. Wolf - you're not on Fox News now, your nonsense will not go unchallenged. The majority of Americans are buying into what Mamet is saying? The whole reason the Republican Party is in such trouble is because it only appeals to white people. A political party cannot muster a majority anymore in this country by only appealing to white people. The Republican Party is going the way of The Whigs - and Fox News ain't far behind.</blockquote>
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<br />When I first read this I didn't really know how to respond to it. Even now I find myself wondering whether Bochner actually realized what he was saying.
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<br />There is so much wrong with what he wrote that I don't even know where to begin. Bochner seems to believe that a person's political philosophy is not a function of the ideas they believe in, but their skin color. Stop and think about that for a moment. Is that not the most absurd and insulting thing he could possibly say?
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<br />He seems to believe, in all seriousness, that racial distinctions are not merely skin deep, but signify profound differences in the way human beings think, feel, and experience the world around them. In other words, the composition of their soul.
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<br />He seems to think that "white" people possess certain emotional and intellectual traits that make the Republican party attractive to them. Meanwhile other people who are not white, possess other traits that make this party unattractive to them.
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<br />The man is a fucking nut.
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<br />I'd call him a racist except to do so would drag out a very old and tired cliche that has been used to tell far too many lies and obscure far too many truths.
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<br />So I'll just say that he's crazy and ignorant and bigoted and leave it at that.
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-35287382200727040092011-08-21T22:59:00.000-07:002011-09-06T01:20:14.471-07:00Huntman pisses off the dingbats while trying to pander to the leftards<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2011/08/18/jon-huntsman-call-me-crazy-but-i-believe-in-evolution-and-global-warming/">Jon Huntsman: Call me crazy but I believe in evolution and global warming</a><br /><br />I find it pathetically sad that someone even has to say that they believe in evolution. It's like saying that you believe in electrons, or hydrogen. No one should have to come out and proclaim to the world that they believe in any of these things because the existence of each has been proven not just beyond a reasonable doubt, but beyond the shadow of a doubt. Either these things exist, or everything we know is wrong.<br /><br />Despite what some people want so desperately to believe because their sense of self hinges upon it, the world was not created in 6 days roughly 6,000 years ago. The universe is billions of years old and the timeline for life on earth goes back almost 4 billion years. This isn't what it says in the bible because the bible is the collected and codified writings of Jews and Christians living in antiquity. Genesis is the Hebrew creation myth put into writing. Any relationship it has with physical reality or cosmological history is purely coincidental. The parts of the bible that deal with people and human nature are where the good stuff is to be found.<br /><br />Does this mean that there is no God? Anyone who makes that argument is lying since the question of the existence of the Judeo-Christian God or any God or Gods cannot be falsified based on the flaws found in a creation myth. But of course that won't stop some Christian-hating pseudo-atheists from trying. As an irreligious person with no axe to grind nor converts proselytize to, I have no animosity towards people who are religious, but I do find people who pretend to be non-believers when they are actually motivated by malice and bigotry towards Christians to be odious in the extreme. Unable to come out and just say that they hate Christians, they instead pretend to find fault with the tenets of that faith, a faith that they would be disinterested in if they were truly not religious. A faith that they would judge by the effect it has on its believers. The value of religion is not in its empirical validity, but in its efficacy. A particular religion's mythologies may have no basis in fact, but if they inspire otherwise wretched human beings to become better people, I don't have a problem with that. <br /><br />An atheist isn't someone who doesn't believe in god, but someone who hates it that you do. They're emotionally immature losers who cannot see beyond their own arrogance.<br /><br />As for Global warming, it appears to be a leftist scam, a manufactured imaginary crisis cooked up to justify policies that they once tried to use other arguments to support. Arguments that failed. Arguments that were bald faced lies and evil agendas wrapped up in sophistry. These arguments went by many names and euphemisms, but the most clear and definite name for them was Communism.<br /><br />Global Warming is nothing but Marxism through other means.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-33632290754151525402011-08-20T14:40:00.001-07:002011-08-20T14:49:12.969-07:00A quote from Robert Heinlein<blockquote><i>"Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort."</i></blockquote>
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<br />I think he was absolutely right. One of the core criteria for being a leftist is the desire to control other people, ostensibly for their own good or for the good of the many, but in reality for the good of the few - those who exercise control. Such it was with the Nomenklatura of the Soviet Union and so it is with the Friends Of Obama. This of course is tyranny. There are non-leftists who are also motivated to control others. They subscribe to other ideologies, some of which are seemingly opposed to Marxism and its analogues. Devout muslims come to mind. But while the end goals of their tyranny may differ, their desire to lord themselves over others does not.
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-4940673681548109472011-08-16T17:45:00.000-07:002011-08-18T00:27:42.906-07:00HIV, Smallpox and the incurable epidemic of human stupidity<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/health/16epidemics.html?_r=1&ref=science">Pathogens May Change, but the Fear Is the Same</a>
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<br />The problem with a disease like HIV is not that it is fatal, but that it takes so long to kill its victims. HIV is extraordinarily difficult to contract. It is not airborne. You can't get it from drinking bad water. You can't get it from casual contact. To be infected requires the exchange of bodily fluids, blood and sexual fluids in particular.
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<br />This is why, of all diseases, AIDS is the one most closely linked to pathological behavior.
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<br /><blockquote><i>A 2007 study by Columbia University scientists found that almost 60 percent of gay American men who knew they were infected and were still having unprotected anal sex did not mention it to all their casual partners.</i></blockquote>
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<br />I submit that the primary reason these men were infected in the first place was because they were having unprotected anal sex with casual partners. If they had pursued a monogamous relationship with another man who was also monogamous, then they would be no more likely to contract HIV than anyone else. Promiscuity, not homosexuality is the problem.
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<br />If the symptoms of AIDS appeared in a week, and the disease was fatal in three, then this would not matter. The epidemic would literally burn itself out. But because it takes so damned long to kill the idiots who go out and get infected with it, they are free to go out and infect countless others, achieving a geometric progression that is limited only by the fact that male homosexuals make up less than 3% of the population, and they don't all know one another. IV drug users are the other group who spread this disease around, but they too are also a small population, and not all of them are going around trading needles like baseball cards.
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<br />Sexual promiscuity is self-destructive, even without fatal diseases like HIV going around. People who go out and stick their dick into every Tom and Harry are mentally ill.
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<br />The reason why normal, monogamous, drug-free (but I repeat myself) heterosexuals are almost never infected with HIV is precisely because we are monogamous and drug free. There are promiscuous heterosexuals in this world, but they are the exception rather than the rule, just as IV drug users are the exception. Gay men, on the other hand, are almost rabidly promiscuous as a general rule.
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<br />Normal people don't catch diseases whose vectors depend upon abnormal and self-destructive behaviors.
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<br />This is a big part of why I'm so unimpressed with whining gay activists who complain incessantly about how they are discriminated against. Of course they are. Junkies get the same treatment and for the same reason, they do things that are damaging to themselves and put others at risk, and most people take exception to that.
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<br />The left has succeeded in fooling so many into seeing discrimination as a bad thing, when it is not. Discrimination is not a bad thing at all. It is a fundamental expression of moral judgment. People discriminate against those who choose to do things that are wrong. This is valid discrimination. Of course there is also invalid discrimination, such as refusing to give a qualified candidate a job because of what that person looks like, or what they have between their legs, or any other number of qualities and characteristics that have no moral significance, have nothing to do with the job at hand, and which they have no control over anyway. The thing is, the left would have you believe that all discrimination, all discernment, is of the invalid kind. Once again, they lie.
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<br />As long as male homosexuals continue to be the most promiscuous group on the face of the earth, then people like me will continue to shun them. I don't care that they are sexually attracted to members of their own sex. It is of no concern to me. I don't understand it, but then I don't need to understand it. Freedom means freedom, it doesn't mean the right to do only those things that other people understand. Provided a choice or a pattern of behavior causes no harm to me or to the world, I don't have a reason to care what someone does. Unfortunately for gay men, spreading diseases like AIDS does cause harm to the world I live in and I take particular exception to the patterns of behavior that cause that harm.
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<br />Gay men need to embrace monogamy. Until they do, I will forever ostracize them. As the article above mentions, "<i>gay men should stop defining their struggle for equal rights chiefly as the right to have promiscuous sex.</i>"
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-68354737179489619832011-08-08T18:05:00.001-07:002011-08-08T18:06:38.164-07:00A quote from Rush Limbaugh"We've had a AAA credit rating since 1917. The Great Depression, we had a AAA credit rating. World War II, we had a AAA credit rating, and we lose it now, and for what? For what great purpose did we lose it? <span style="font-weight:bold;">Except an ideological hatred of American capitalism and a love of class warfare<span style="font-style:italic;"></span></span>, what did we lose our AAA rating for? A naked effort to get still more and more money to buy votes. A never-ending quest for power, that's why we lost our AAA credit rating."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-75773440292095724992011-08-08T00:51:00.000-07:002011-09-06T01:21:39.775-07:00ObamaYou could say that Obama is a bad president, but the truth is that he isn't even a president at all. He's an empty suit. Even a bad leader actually LEADS. He, as another commenter noted elsewhere, operates in one of two modes: arrogance or petulance. The American people were fooled by the Marxist Socialist Media into voting for someone whose presence in the office of president is worse than having no president at all.<br /><br />With the election of Obama, the left thought that they had the American people fooled into subscribing to political and economic ideas that have been proven demonstrably false by the history of the 20th century. 50 million dead, and countless millions more living in pain and misery. Those are the wages of Obama's ideas. Those ideas are incompatible with freedom. Those ideas are incompatible with the truth.<br /><br />Nothing will change unless we make it change.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-59159093570456700232011-08-03T00:56:00.001-07:002011-08-03T00:58:35.604-07:00Canada!<span style="font-style:italic;">(This was originally posted as a comment <a href="http://www.snowflakesinhell.com/2011/08/01/what-canadas-gun-control-laws-mean-to-alaskans/">here</a>)<br /></span><br />Canada, unlike other nations of the world, is defined not by what it is, but by what it is desperately trying not to be: The United States.<br /><br />Canadians generally resent us. We meanwhile, generally don't think about Canadians or their country at all. We don't hate them, we just don't notice them. How can we when they don't really do much to make themselves known?<br /><br />Other than the Mackenzie brothers and the Red Green Show, definitively Canadian cultural content never seems to make its way down here. I don't know why because lots of Americans love British TV shows. Why are there no Canadian shows of note? Lots of Canadian actors show up in American films and TV shows, with Elisha Cuthbert being my personal favorite, but when they do they're playing American characters, not Canadians. Why? <br /><br />The Shipping News, set in Canada and supposedly about Canadians, used an American, two Brits, and an Australian as actors to portray the main characters.<br /><br />For all these reasons and more, Canada is one of those places that you don't really think about unless and until something comes up that gives you a reason to, and then its like "Oh yeah, there's this whole country up there isn't there?"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-91310227913566140222011-08-01T23:47:00.003-07:002011-08-01T23:47:51.227-07:00Thought for todayMarxism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be prosperous.<br /><br />(With apologies to H. L. Mencken)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-23650722225911813932011-07-11T08:12:00.001-07:002011-09-06T01:26:06.746-07:00Drugs...again<a href="http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/07/10/an-unhappy-ending-to-the-drug-war/">Yet another call to legalize drugs</a><br /><br />To me the problem with the drug war is not the drugs themselves or their effect on users. The problem is that our efforts to prevent losers from losing by consuming drugs empowers petit fascists to send <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2011/05/28/20110528tucson-swat-team-kills-ex-marine-jose-guerena.html">death squads into homes with no warning</a> under the guise of a "no knock" warrant. No drug is as great a danger to society as our police forces let off their leash.<br /><br />Luckily there is a long term solution to this problem: selective breeding.<br /><br />Legalize everything. Sell everything in state-run stores. But to each and every drug add a substance that, if consumed over a period of time, causes permanent and irreversible sterility in both men and women.<br /><br />The real problem with drugs is not that they ruin lives and often kill their users, but that they don't work quickly enough to remove the trash from our gene pool before they reproduce. <br /><br />Civilization trumps natural selection, especially in places like the US where losers aren't just likely to survive, but even more likely to breed than winners in many cases.<br /><br />Allow drugs, as a self-selecting process, to remove the idiots and losers from our gene pool so that, even if they don't die with a needle in their arm, they won't be making any little losers and idiots to cause us grief in the future and expand the welfare roles as vassals for the Democrats.<br /><br />Let the drugs themselves eliminate the types of people who are likely to use them. Let drugs become the synthetic alternative to natural selection that our gene pool and society so desperately need.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-80242366161012345352011-07-09T10:07:00.000-07:002011-08-02T23:59:17.912-07:00Behold the crazy<a href="http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/07/08/watson_dawkins.html">When Women Confuse Being Asked Out With Being Raped At Knifepoint In An Elevator</a><br /><br />This is what happens when mental illness is rationalized as a political philosophy. Anyone who has read the Unabomber manifesto knows what I'm talking about. Intelligence and sanity are not mutually inclusive.<br /><br />Women are not victims. Women are not oppressed. The equality that pseudo-feminists claim to want has existed in the US for decades now, and men couldn't be happier. The world presented in shows like Mad Men seems like such a bizarre anachronism because it is. The only thing stopping a woman from achieving anything she desires is herself. No man is standing in her way. No men want to stand in her way. Why would we? We're too busy doing our own thing, pursuing our own happiness, and living our own lives. Lives that don't revolve around women.<br /><br />I'm especially disgusted at her suggestion that self-proclaimed feminists have worked so hard to free women living under islamofascist rule in Muslim nations. They threw those women under the bus long ago. Why? Because they are Gramscian marxists pretending to be advocates for women. They threw American women under the bus to protect Bill Clinton in the 90's and Muslim women under the bus to demonize George W. Bush soon after that. They've lost all credibility with anyone who is paying the least bit of attention. It is one thing to be honest, but wrong. These people are despicable liars.<br /><br />I'm sick and tired of encountering people who are my equals and having them tell me how oppressed they are when they enjoy all the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities that I do, only they fail to take advantage of them. I have no sympathy.<br /><br />I do my very best to avoid such people. Crazy people make me very uncomfortable, in no small part because it is difficult to communicate with them. You say one thing and they hear another (or maliciously misinterpret your words to that effect) and you spend all your time just trying to find a way to get a message across without it being garbled by their own delusions and dishonesty. So I just avoid them as there is no point.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Update:</span><br /><br />One of the posters to the blog above had this to say:<br /><br /><blockquote><i>Be more understanding people. This is the closest SkepChick has come to being a victim of anything or anyone in her entire life, a life predicated around her sense of victimhood.</i></blockquote><br /><br />I couldn't agree more.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-75170984682180648852011-07-05T08:31:00.000-07:002011-07-05T08:55:24.746-07:00Yet another reason to get rid of the Department of Education.<a href="http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Notre-Dame-to-Clarify/128128/">Notre Dame to Clarify Sexual-Harassment Policies in Settlement With Education Department</a><br /><br />Reading this article, I was struck by the absurdity of a rape victim complaining to a university that she had been assaulted by one of its students. Call the police. File a report with the people whose job it is to do something about it. Don't call the school board when an armed robber steals your cash register. Call the police.<br /><br />It is easy to assume incompetence here. That someone called the university instead of the police because they were emotionally distraught and didn't know any better, or that the university felt compelled to assume responsibility for this case because its employees were incompetent or deluded. But perhaps that is not what happened here. If the girl claiming to have been assaulted did not have a case, that is to say she only had her own word to offer up as evidence, then I would not be a bit surprised if she knew this. The laws that define sexual assault as a crime specifically state that the word of the accuser alone is insufficient evidence to secure a conviction. Additional evidence is required. Why? Because justice is about the pursuit of truth. When one person has the ability to see another convicted of a heinous crime by merely accusing them of it, the result is a criminal justice system corrupted into a tool for private tyranny, the very thing it was created to prevent. <br /><br />So I'm not surprised that other entities who are not so constrained are being hooked in to the issue and forced to assume responsibility for determining the truth of accusations under a compromised standard of evidence.<br /><br />This is insanity acting in the service of evil, and there is no reason why the American taxpayers should be subsidizing it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-37479686489125929852011-06-18T18:39:00.000-07:002011-06-18T18:41:12.544-07:00Lies, damned lies, and liberalismHere is a great video that debunks some of the economic lies that the left tries to peddle.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihwg5lbnEww&feature=feedu">The truth about the economy, the critique</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-42930098743500680312011-06-03T17:26:00.000-07:002011-06-03T17:37:32.906-07:00<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/06/03/texas-senator-blasts-judges-decision-to-forbid-public-prayer-at-high-school/">Federal Court Lifts Ban on Public Prayer at Texas High School Graduation</a><br /><br />The parents of a graduating student attempted to argue that for him to encounter others expressing their religious beliefs would cause him "irreparable harm."<br /><br />Their argument is wholly without merit. It cannot even be called specious for it lacks even the appearance of being plausible. Even THEY know that their argument is nonsense.<br /><br />So why are they filing this suit?<br /><br /><i><b>Because they hail from the faction of the left who want the expression of religious belief to be seen as a form of obscenity.</b></i><br /><br />They want to destroy religious faith in America by making it seem shameful.<br /><br />These people are evil.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-31686195063489134212011-05-25T16:05:00.000-07:002011-05-25T16:17:49.421-07:00Death by Government<a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/americas-overmilitarized-police-claim-another-innocent-life/?singlepage=true">Marine veteran murdered by SWAT team in Tucson</a><br /><br />I have no words for this. I only have anger and hatred and the desire to see those responsible for this massacre put to death in the most brutal and bloodiest fashion. I don't just want them dead, I want them to suffer unimaginably, and to beg and pray for an end to their suffering long before the mercy of death is delivered. I want them to know what hell is like before they get there.<br /><br />Cases like this one prove the wisdom of our founders when they crafted the 2nd Amendment. Resistance of tyranny is a lot more effective when that resistance is armed.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495302146956336222.post-53168904547357673142011-05-24T00:32:00.000-07:002011-07-12T21:37:12.371-07:00Welcome to Indiana, where all your rights are belong to us<a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/05/21/indiana-attorney-general-seeks-reconsideration-of-fourth-amendment-ruling/">Indiana Attorney General seeks reconsideration of fourth amendment ruling</a><br /><br />Didn't we fight a war over this sort of thing a couple hundred years ago?<br /><br />Agents of the state do NOT have the authority to violate the law, and that is especially true of those agents whose jobs involve the use of deadly force. A home invasion by police officers acting in violation of the law is morally and factually indistinguishable from an invasion by a gang of armed criminals - and should be responded to in like terms: the overwhelming use of deadly force.<br /><br />This is perhaps the best case for why the 2nd amendment exists. You cannot rely on government to protect your rights. Government is the largest single threat to our rights. Only armed citizens, ready and able to stand in defense of our own liberty, can safely secure it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0