I heard about both of both the heinous murder and the capture of the murderer this morning. It was an act of almost unfathomable evil.
In listening to the outpouring of grief, shock and sympathy there were those who did, indeed, kept the focus where it needed to be. Unfortunately, I was disgusted that the President of the United States could not let politics alone during this time and needed to get his licks in about gun confiscation control.
Unconscionable, but unsurprising.
For the Left, Utopia(tm) is only one policy, one law, one regulation away and all UnGood behavior is just more grist for their 24/7 mill.
They are wrong. They are morally bankrupt.
And they lack the strength of character to understand how the world really works. What an awful and depressing way to go through life.
At this time, I will pray for them as I pray for the families of the victims in Charleston.
amen.
Obama not only hit gun control, but race and anti Americanism too.
He’s such a bastard.
[…] Lem’s Place Instapundit: Charlie Hebdo unavailable for rebuttal on President Obama’s comments and suspect arrested To help President Obama out with the facts, AoSHQ has a list of countries where mass shootings have happened (wow, quite a list) Federalist: Lack of gun control did not cause Charleston shooting Darleen Click/Protein Wisdom […]
They guy who’s DOJ walked military grade weapons into Mexico and the hands of the cartels has no grounds to lecture anyone about gun violence.
I am amazed how I have gone from being “whatever” about Obama to really despising the man. Tell me why I should like someone who does not like me.
>They guy who’s DOJ walked military grade weapons into Mexico<
#thankspresidentasshole
>They guy who’s DOJ walked military grade weapons into Mexico<
benghazi
#thankspresidentasshole
>They guy who’s DOJ walked military grade weapons into Mexico<
syria/iraq/middle east
#thankspresidentasshole
>False flag (or black flag) describes covert operations designed to deceive in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by entities, groups, or nations other than those who actually planned and executed them. Operations carried out during peace-time by civilian organizations, as well as covert government agencies, may by extension be called false flag operations if they seek to hide the real organization behind an operation. Geraint Hughes uses the term to refer to those acts carried out by “military or security force personnel, which are then blamed on terrorists.”[1]
In its most modern usage, the term may also refer to those events which governments are cognizant of and able to stop but choose to allow to happen (or “stand down”), as a strategy to entangle or prepare the nation for war. Furthermore, the term “false flag terrorism” may even be used in those instances when violence is carried out by groups or organizations which, whether they know it or not, are being supported or controlled by the “victim” nation. deHaven-Smith argues that the terminology has become looser in recent years due to the increasingly complex levels of “duplicity” and “international intrigue” between states.[2]
The name “false flag” has its origins in naval warfare where the use of a flag other than the belligerent’s true battle flag as a ruse de guerre, before engaging the enemy, has long been accepted.[3] Such operations are also accepted in certain circumstances in land warfare, to deceive enemies in similar ways providing that the deception is not perfidious and all such deceptions are discarded before opening fire upon the enemy.<
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LET US now imagine that one day something in our greengrocer snaps and he stops putting up the slogans merely to ingratiate himself. He stops voting in elections he knows are a farce. He begins to say what he really thinks at political meetings. And he even finds the strength in himself to express solidarity with those whom his conscience commands him to support. In this revolt the greengrocer steps out of living within the lie. He rejects the ritual and breaks the rules of the game. He discovers once more his suppressed identity and dignity. He gives his freedom a concrete significance. His revolt is an attempt to live within the truth.
The bill is not long in coming. He will be relieved of his post as manager of the shop and transferred to the warehouse. His pay will be reduced. His hopes for a holiday in Bulgaria will evaporate. His children’s access to higher education will be threatened. His superiors will harass him and his fellow workers will wonder about him. Most of those who apply these sanctions, however, will not do so from any authentic inner conviction but simply under pressure from conditions, the same conditions that once pressured the greengrocer to display the official slogans. They will persecute the greengrocer either because it is expected of them, or to demonstrate their loyalty, or simply as part of the general panorama, to which belongs an awareness that this is how situations of this sort are dealt with, that this, in fact, is how things are always done, particularly if one is not to become suspect oneself. The executors, therefore, behave essentially like everyone else, to a greater or lesser degree: as components of the post-totalitarian system, as agents of its automatism, as petty instruments of the social auto-totality.
Thus the power structure, through the agency of those who carry out the sanctions, those anonymous components of the system, will spew the greengrocer from its mouth. The system, through its alienating presence ín people, will punish him for his rebellion. It must do so because the logic of its automatism and self-defense dictate it. The greengrocer has not committed a simple, individual offense, isolated in its own uniqueness, but something incomparably more serious. By breaking the rules of the game, he has disrupted the game as such. He has exposed it as a mere game. He has shattered the world of appearances, the fundamental pillar of the system. He has upset the power structure by tearing apart what holds it together. He has demonstrated that living a lie is living a lie. He has broken through the exalted facade of the system and exposed the real, base foundations of power. He has said that the emperor is naked. And because the emperor is in fact naked, something extremely dangerous has happened: by his action, the greengrocer has addressed the world. He has enabled everyone to peer behind the curtain. He has shown everyone that it is possible to live within the truth. Living within the lie can constitute the system only if it is universal. The principle must embrace and permeate everything. There are no terms whatsoever on which it can co-exist with living within the truth, and therefore everyone who steps out of line denies it in principle and threatens it in its entirety.
This is understandable: as long as appearance is not confronted with reality, it does not seem to be appearance. As long as living a lie is not confronted with living the truth, the perspective needed to expose its mendacity is lacking. As soon as the alternative appears, however, it threatens the very existence of appearance and living a lie in terms of what they are, both their essence and their all-inclusiveness. And at the same time, it is utterly unimportant how large a space this alternative occupies: its power does not consist in its physical attributes but in the light it casts on those pillars of the system and on its unstable foundations. After all, the greengrocer was a threat to the system not because of any physical or actual power he had, but because his action went beyond itself, because it illuminated its surroundings and, of course, because of the incalculable consequences of that illumination. In the post-totalitarian system, therefore, living within the truth has more than a mere existential dimension (returning humanity to its inherent nature), or a noetic dimension (revealing reality as it is), or a moral dimension (setting an example for others). It also has an unambiguous political dimension. If the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living the truth. This is why it must be suppressed more severely than anything else.
In the post-totalitarian system, truth in the widest sense of the word has a very special import, one unknown in other contexts. In this system, truth plays a far greater (and, above all, a far different) role as a factor of power, or as an outright political force. How does the power of truth operate? How does truth as a factor of power work? How can its power-as power-be realized?
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Well, I learned something new tonight:
I prefer Jim Beam Black to Maker’s Mark.
what? you were expecting some insight into theodicy or something?
You really should see a specialist Doctor about that condition, Ernst.
Obviously, your taste buds are infected with some vile malady.
JB’s “Devil’s Cut” is good too.
A middle-lefty UK guy on Youtube is refreshingly pissed about the developing SC shooting narrative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01v0ItTqp_I&feature=youtu.be
A hate filled racist guns down nine people in a church, and your response… OBAMA!
I like Devil’s Cut better than Maker’s Mark as well.
Maker’s is okay in cola I guess.
A hate filled racist guns down nine people in a church, and your response… OBAMA!
Obama attempts to score political points with a hate-filled racist who gunned down nine people in a church, and your response? Silent approval.
miley proves itself, again, as nothing more than a racist, immoral Left-bot (I repeat myself).
obama is a loathsome whorish race pimp he makes me sick to where i need birthday cake fudge from dylan’s
Aw, c’mon, Darleen. If xe upholds Miley Cyrus as xir intellectual ideal, we should probably be impressed that xe can beat on the keyboard and produce something that even looks like words. Expecting actual cogent thought is just unrealistic.
Funny, A hate filled racist guns down nine people in a church, and OBAMA! Makes it about himself. Meanwhile, the boy pointing out the man’s nakedness is questionable.
Funny in a queer way is what I mean…