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Well, as long we’re going all minimalist.
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I am with you on this, Jeff.
I haven’t spent 26 years in uniform, thrice mobilized to go and make sure that people who had an all conquering ideology that would tell everyone what they could eat (halal) wear (cover up ladies, get those beards out gents) read (damned little), listen to (ask the Talib what they think of music, any music), see, own, worship, think or do – only to see a thoughtful, “caring”, smiley face version that seeks only somewhat less control, walk up and squat on top of the people and Constitution I have been trying to protect.
I’m #$%&ing tired from it, and if tired makes me less civil. Too damned bad.
Obama Budget: Life Is Short; Eat Dessert First.
Sully accuses the president of being weak for not addressing the debt crisis, but Obama isn’t weak so much as he’s unlucky. BLAST the luck of being president at this time in history, when we really have run out of other people’s money, because he had such dreams (from his father).
DITT – fucking – O
Also, I’m skeptical about Watson beating Jennings and that other guy at Jeopardy. Even Jennings said that more than half the game is hitting the buzzer before everyone else, so really what we witnessed was the fact that the machine had faster reflexes than the hoomans.
Because he doesn’t have the stones to put Obama in any kind of moral context, and in fact believes we need to bracket such social conservatism.
Mr. Daniels doesn’t bracket social conservatism anymore so than the Tea Party’s been doing all along. This “moral context” thing sounds an awful lot like DeMint’s attempts to co-opt the Tea Party I think.
he had such dreams (from his father)
Which one?
Shut up. Grown-ups are talking.
I’m nobody’s godbotherer. But slavery? Has a moral component.
The only person who is co-opting the Tea Party is you. It wasn’t a fucking meeting of accountants. There are reasons people understand that we can’t continue to spend this way. And those reasons are both intellectual and moral.
Don’t like it? I don’t much give a fuck. Other than that by minimizing that component and ridiculing it constantly, you help the left. Repeatedly. And with relish.
So get the fuck out of the way, because you aren’t helping. In fact, you’re a major part of the problem. As are other putative “conservatives” I can name.
you are a very hostile person
Hostile and dangerous and violent. Yes, I’ve been told.
Here, allow me to save you from me.
Whyyy Caaaaannnn’t Yoouuuu Leeaavve Mitch Aloooooone-Ahh!
Invincible. Fucking. Ignorance.
Re the bullet train / re-urbanization thing: if liberals hadn’t spent the last 50 years decriminalizing crime, treating city services as a jobs program for democrat voters, raising the poor against the middle class, then maybe the cities wouldn’t have become so dire, sparking the exodus to the suburbs. Urban planners should spend more time respectfully listening to suburbanites, rather than just trying to sweep them back into the ant pile. If they won’t listen to reason, maybe they’ll listen to political data, as Chicago’s population has fallen to 1920 levels while the surrounding ‘burbs have swelled. Quick, call a community organizer!
When everyone you speak to seems hostile, it might be time to reflect on whether there’s a reason for that.
Just sayin’.
“In a totalitarian society, it takes courage to speak the truth. In a free society, it takes courage to see the truth.”
— Natan Scharansky
The griefer got his badge.
He can now go join the rest of the staunchies who will publicly accuse me of issuing “death threats” and will launch a backdoor email campaign to get me removed from polite company, but who won’t hope a socialist fails to implement socialism, and who pretend to believe a guy who sat in Wright’s church and who uses charges of “racism” as a ready weapon, is a Good Man — all so he can show he’s one of the “reasonable” ones.
Fuck all of them.
The longer I let these people stick around and say their piece, the more I’m accused of “silencing” them when eventually I tell them to fuck off. Or when they leave on their own (cf. Karl, or Dan, who I wronged by allowing them the use of an already well-established platform. WHAT A HORRIBLE BASTARD I AM!).
And I don’t care, because I won’t be posting anyway. But may as well clean the place up a bit.
I think he’ll be happier among the jurors, anyway. ‘Tis for the best.
The bastards get all of us down at some point or another. Don’t give them the satisfaction of keeping you down.
Eventually nearly everyone who has ever spent time here will have something unkind to say about me. That’s my goal: a world of happyfeets and daleyrocks and patterico — and all the behind the scenes critics whose identities I’d be surprised to learn.
What can be better for the country?
Well, as a rabid Daniels supporter — well, not really, but it’s fun to say — I certainly want you to keep posting.
You don’t owe the blog anything. Or the blogosphere. And, yeah, there’s plenty of bullshit that’s built up over the years that must weigh on you.
But, simply said, I really do like reading your stuff. You’ve been pushing the right stuff at the right times for quite a while. Better and longer than just about anyone I can think of, really.
So, yeah, do what works for you but you writing works for us. That and nickel won’t even get you a phone call anymore but when you do feel like writing, you’ll always have lots of people right here who will want to read it.
(Okay, gotta go. I’m buried.)
You, sir, are prickly and uncompromising. GOOD DAY, SIR!
Eventually nearly everyone who has ever spent time here will have something unkind to say about me. That’s my goal: a world of happyfeets and daleyrocks and patterico — and all the behind the scenes critics whose identities I’d be surprised to learn.
Well, then I guess you’ll have to keep writing. Your job is far from over.
Well, as a virulent despiser of “rabid Daniels supporters” I’d like to second what bh said.
Hey! CONCENSUS!
Love the train bit. Will probably steal it.
Obama’s a Manchurian Candidate.
There. I said it.
Damn, you sound like you’ve been listening to that Glenn Beck lunatic!
Front page that, Jeff, in its entirety. It’s past high time to call it what it is. It may be too late to win, but it’s way too soon to quit.
Yea, Maggie. I loved the train bit too. Shared it elsewhere.
Civility may be “possible”, but is no longer effective; not when you have the MBM, the sacred fourth estate, that the founders of our nation thought so necessary to the functioning of a “free” society, by-and-large willingly reducing themselves to being propaganda peddling fanboys of Obama and the Democrats.
They got him elected, and they’ll warp any reality to keep him there; they’re dancing with the date they brung…
And many in our society, unfortunately, can’t be bothered with matters that are so central to the reduced amount of liberty we have today-they take even that for granted. Or worse, they have accepted the fiction that their “betters” should be making the decisions for them; they have wholesale bought into the nanny-state being as their mothers and fathers. Better that they busy themselves with their ipods, video games, big screen TVs, and all of the other distractions available; that they stick to the bread and circuses.
It may take some attention grabbing acts to get these sheeple’s attention. Like when Joe Wilson exclaimed, “YOU LIE!”, during Obama’s SOTU speech last year when the President was, well, lying.
Maybe a good fistfight on the floor of the House, like in the bad old days before the civil war.
But seriously, now’s the time to take the gloves off, because the game’s for all the marbles. It’s time to stop worrying about civility, and start worrying about the long term effects of Obama’s policies on the nation; both at home and abroad.
And the fantasy-land budget he put forth is a good place to start. Don’t say he was mistaken; call it what it is-a lie…Call him out on cynically making up numbers that no rational person believes is true. Ask him why he keeps talking about the trillion they’re cutting over ten years, allegedly, but refuses to even acknowledge the 8 trillion in new spending?
Call him out on it.
Nah. We’re working on stockpiles of food, water, fuel, and ammo for completely misanthropic reasons ourselves.
If the SHTF, we’re going to have bug-out plans and locations in place and ready.
Jeff,
The coming crash is going to sort a lot of things out. If dumbass politicians don’t get serious about the debt problem, we, as a country, are going to take a giant fiscal enema.
Although, I sometimes wonder if a major financial crash is what America needs in order to weed out all the useless self-centered assholes.
Okay Ernst, this is pretty funny…
What, no more references to hoochie cum slut snow billies? I will alot miss that…..
Thank You Bob.
I think I sat on it too long though.
Eventually nearly everyone who has ever spent time here will have something unkind to say about me.
You know what Superman, Jack Bauer, and Chuck Norris all have in common?
They wear Jeff Goldstein pajamas.
Oh wait. I already did this bit.
Fantastic Jeff. Utterly fantastic. Like I have told you via email in the past, you give voice to my concerns in a way that I’m just not capable of. If that makes me a fanboy, then so be it, because I am most definitely a fan of yours.
A swift kick in the ass.
This “moral context” thing
Not all morals have to do with abortion and gay marriage, ‘feets. There’s the indentured servitude of our posterity that Jeff mentions, plus the confiscation of the fruits of our labor to glut the machine, plus simple honesty and integrity, which we’re not getting in any measure from either the press or the beltway crowd or even from each other.
Want some evidence that freedom is a moral issue? The Book of Mormon is chock full of examples of cities and civilizations falling prey to, among other things:
— A greedy king who confiscates the goods of the people to spend on whores and revelry for himself and his cronies, so much so that they’re wholly unprepared when the enemy enters the borders, conquers them, and presses them into servitude.
— The elite and educated of a society lobbying to dissolve the rule of law to replace it with — ready? — themselves, and when people vote them down, they run off to the enemy and help them make devastating war against their own people.
— Corrupt governments who are essentially the mafia writ large, causing massive suffering and finally leading to genocidal war.
All of these civilizational pitfalls are presented as moral issues: the people forget God, forget their grounding, forget simple gratitude and humility, forget to value TRVTH over all else, and the natural consequence of the corrupted morals of the individuals is the fall of their civilization in myriad ways.
Not one mention of abortion or gay marriage or drugs or anything like that. It’s all about the sins of societies, the struggle to live in a free society under the rule of law versus the ways in which free people become enslaved or even destroyed by their political sins, which all arise from the immorality of the individuals.
I’m not really eager to repeat any of the patterns modeled in that book or any other, but it looks like we’re all in for a Very Hard Lesson, regardless of what I want.
Nothing I write here is widely read anymore. For instance, this comment uses curse words. It calls people out. So very unhelpful.
Plus, it’s written by an unstable, potentially dangerous sociopath who doesn’t have a proper job. Sniff.
“Obama’s a Manchurian Candidate.
There. I said it.”
Well, I don’t know what he would do different if he was.
I’m working for my mom this week. In Florida. Does that help?
Seconded.
I’m more worried about the actually dangerous sociopath who has a job he’s not qualified for, not by experience or temperament, or outlook.
But I guess he’s stable. So the President has that going for him.
“Nothing I write here is widely read anymore. For instance, this comment uses curse words. It calls people out. So very unhelpful.”
Well Jeff, you have to decide if you want to speak the truth, or be popular. It’s pretty much impossible to manage both. Even Jesus couldn’t pull it off.
I hope you stick with telling it as it is, damn the torpedoes. The blogosphere is chock full of self important men blowing smoke up our ass, and there are many that want that. We need you and more like you.
Please don’t give up.
dicentra,
How about this extremely unhelpful Bible passage:
Ecclesiastes 1:9 (New International Version, ©2010)
What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
——————————————–
People always try to say things have changed. Well, yeah, the technological trappings of society have changed, but the human condition remains what it has been since the advent of recorded history.
The innertubes are grumpy.
Thirded.
Also, posts without titles make for a very strange-looking “Recent Comments” feed.
Also also, the truth loves to be told and will always love the teller.
Learn to love the debt-bomb. The only way we’re going to win out is if we stop fearing the consequences of losing.
Speaking the truth is unhelpful to those trying their best to hide it behind a curtain of rhetoric, Jeff. Those who think reality is made up of symbols usually annoy those who have to work with the nuts and bolts.
C’est la vie. Sic transit gloria mundi, Tuesday is usually worse.
Can I get a “Hell YEAH!”?
Ok, usually the way to get rid of an earworm is to listen to the thing what’s got you earwormed, but what if you end up compulsively listening to it anyway?
Exhibit A. It’s been earworming me all week. Something about the cello.
Ok, I’m better now.
Tasty and refreshing. Not that I haven’t been excoriated for saying much the same thing. Carry on.
Why do so many greet the slaver with milk and cookies instead of the point of a gun?
Civility. Gaah.
Why do so many greet the slaver with milk and cookies instead of the point of a gun?
Because the slave is the free-est of us all.
No responsibility, no accountability. It’s not a bad deal really.
Except for the brute-alize-ation.
Hero.
Villain.
Treat them as such. And fuck those who won’t.
Dana Milbank is LYING. And by “rebutting” him we pretend he holds a legitimate position of respectability. He doesn’t. He’s a fucking liar who doesn’t care if my son is eventually enslaved by the state. He is part of the west’s Pravda. He is a propagandist who we pretend is a journalist. He wants to destroy my country and is hoping to take away my liberty, and he does this by giving cover to those who have the legislative power to do just that.
He is my enemy. And there are many like him. I’m going to treat them all as such.
How’s that for “civil,” bitch?
“you are a very hostile person”
Let’s pretend the word “hostile” is not weighted negatively. Like a gun, hostility is justified when confronting an armed intruder in your home late at night.
Personally, I think passive-aggressive behavior more malevolent than a blunt assessment of the situation.
Others may disagree…
I saw that Dana article earlier and had a nice long string of nasty words flow out of my mouth. I decided that was about the only response worthy of his stupidity and didn’t pass along the POS to anyone.
And, I’m willing to say it. If government folks lose their jobs I. don’t. Care.
Join the fucking club.
I wonder if I can become an honorary Wisconsin National Guard member?
Or I could bring them cookies and juiceboxes at the front lines.
Oh sure, Jeff, rub it in. I am one county away from the Cheddar Curtain, and the image of our Gov smiling, laughing and slapping backs as the lame duck legislature increased our taxes 67% just won’t fade…
57 – they have a funny Badger patch. But they do have Fort McCoy and Volk Field, so they have some half decent facilities.
So, Walker is evil personified for wanting to limit the collective bargaining power of the public employees unions.
But FDR, the pope of progressivism, is widely lauded, despite the fact that he was on record as believing that government employees shouldn’t be allowed to organize into union.
Once again, the dissonance is too much for people who actually think, instead of simply repeat talking-point-mantras.
Hey, why should gov’t workers be immune from the shared sacrifice of economic decline? Don’t we all, guilty and innocent alike, have to bear the burden of our collective greed and profligacy?
Leave it to the Onion….
It’s important at this moment to correctly identify who the real villains are: hostile, violent bloggers what demand purity; Sarah Palin and Pam Tebow; Michele Bachmann and Jim DeMint; and Rush Limbaugh/Mark Levin/unhelpful screamers who pale in comparison to the polished, rigorous, nuanced thinking that produces reader polls about the potential racism of accomplished conservative journalists, but allows that a man who sat through Rev Wright’s sermons on the white devil, and who befriended a set of unrepentant domestic terrorists who now rule the salon set, is a good man.
/youknowwhotheyareandtheycangofuckthemselves too
You forgot white christer bigots.
Villains.
we shan’t question their motives. that’s so…intentionalist.
And that’s the kind of bullshit that only violent bloggers what demand purity pretend to champion. Besides, we can’t say for sure what, for instance, Obama’s intent is, so does it even matter that he has one? No, I say! It makes no difference whatsoever!
/youknowwhotheyareandtheycangofuckthemselves
There will be plenty to carry on my message.
And they have the proper pedigree, to boot. So, win-win!
You left out the
Communism!Socialism!radicalism Jeff,It’s okay. I understand. Red-baiting is sssoooo 1950s. Must’nt take our eyes off the spendings.
Oh! Cupcakes!
You left out the European-style social-welfare corporatism Jeff.
(please don’t ban me, he said meekly)
From the execrable comrade Milbank
Nice. Set’s the stage with Boehner-as-Scrooge McDuck, or some other cartoonish rich guy, by making sure he details his upper-crust shoes. No doubt the same kind that Milbank wears, but, whatevz…
Ah…Milbank checked. With the propagandists at CAP, natch. Who, using the usual multipliers, that is, ones that any reasonable person schooled, and fully invested, in “The Narrative™ accept as metaphysical certitude, somehow came to the conclusion that cutting the budget by a fraction of what O!&Co. have raised it in just the past 2 years will miraculously result in more than 3 times the number of public employees taken on in that time being fired. And of course, will result in some of us poor proles losing our jobs as well…
Color me skeptical, but I fail to see how the cuts that Boehner and the Rethugs! are talking about, 100 billion or so, which represent about 15% of the spendulus money, which we’re told created 2 million jobs, will result in half of those storied jobs being lost.
Got that? Even though Milbank civilly throws out the bone that Boehner’s motives may be pure, the speaker being a good man and all, he then immediately casts him as a hypocrite by employing the assertion of conspiritprial utility through the good ol’ cui bono, guilt-by-association, canard.
And then he finishes off by going into a full-throated cry of, The Hypocrisy, the left’s usual flourish, you know, just for the civility of it…
And I’d prefer to not get into the weeds of a discussion of the F-35 program, or the merits, or lack thereof, of the engine under discussion. But would only point out that when it came to strongarming-for-Obamacare, Landrieu payoffs and cornhusker kickbacks were perfectly acceptable, but now?
Who’s the hypocrite? Milbank of course. There’s no discussion of the Obama’s ridiculous budgetary fantasy, of his myriad lies and broken “promises”, or even the slightest acknowledgement that all of the alleged jobs “created” may not be what the administration and their propaganda hack allies like to paint it as. Only that Boehner deliberately, willfully, wants to put a nearly million people out of work by cutting US government spending a paltry 2.7%. In reality, not even a cut in spending but merely a slowing of the rate of spending growth…
Milbank is a shameless liar, and an Obama propagandist.
Milbank:
Yes. Let’s not forget that this is the nitwit who made the pledge not to mention Sarah Palin, and blew it one Day One.
Milbank is too stupid to know he’s lying, though he’s certainly spewing lies. He surely thinks himself a good man, and a thinker, not really just a feisty little lamb. He should be mocked and scorned for being the feckless, venal, implausibly arrogant hack that he is.
Jimmy Carter says the MB are nothing to be afraid of… and to add to that
Clapper said this morning (in a do-over) that well, yes the MB is really no big deal cause they told us they weren’t ‘radical’ like those evil AQ guys who derived their positions from the founder of the MB.
In other news, stormtroopers are still looking for droids in Mos Eisley.
Sure we can tell! Reader Poll!
It would probably work this time, actually.
Judgementalism! There is judgementalism going on here!
Next thing you know, somebody will be saying that the American Left is comprised of useful idiots, willing dupes, and eager collaborators to an evil empire, and who are now seeking to raise it from the ash heap of history on our very own soil.
Kurtz via Insty:
Tea Party moxie and the shellacking notwithstanding, the GOP establishment remains reluctant to highlight Obama’s radicalism. I understand the reasons for this, and they are by no means trivial. While Obama’s policies are opposed by many, he remains personally popular. It seems disrespectful to attribute an ideology to the president that he himself won’t own up to. Words like “radical,” much less “socialist,” sound impolite. Yet, without defining the president in a way that happens to be not only politically advantageous, but true, I doubt Obama can be stopped. Telling the truth about this president is how we shellacked him to begin with. . . . Perhaps I’m wrong and “the president’s abdication of leadership” sound bite will be enough to defeat “the GOP’s heartless cuts.” Even so, as an alternative, I suggest: “Obama’s radical plans are leading us off a cliff.”
And then there’s this:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/2010/11/sunday-reflection-republicans-should-seek-clarity-listening-voters
Nice to see the powerline guys on board with the thesis you’ve put forth here for years Jeff.
Too bad they can’t acknowledge some of your work on this.
Maybe you should do an entire series comparing what you said prior to Obama’s ascendancy, and how much of it’s come to pass.
Call it the, “I told you so”, series. Also include a bunch of comparisons between the johnny-come-lately’s, like that powerline post, to some of yours from the wayback machine.
@55, I meant passive-aggressive behavior for happyfeet specifically, but I think it’s an apt description of pragmatism as practiced by our eager to retreat establishment Republicans.
I wonder where we would be if McCain had won, had a heart attack at the news, and Palin was president?
I bet I’d be working right now.
Jimmy Carter says the MB are nothing to be afraid of…
Jimmy Carter should have been a weatherman. It’s the only way to maintain a shred of respectability and still be as wrong as often as he is .
Gee Ernst, I thought that was a given…
Nice to see the powerline guys on board with the thesis you’ve put forth here for years Jeff.
Just a guess here, but I think losing one of their number to leftist hidden motive diviners may have opened their eyes. Just a bit.
Except Ernst, JC would look out the window, see a flood and deny it was raining. Plus, even weathermen carry an umbrella on a cloudy day.
“Jimmy Carter should have been a weatherman. It’s the only way to maintain a shred of respectability and still be as wrong as often as he is .”
Heh, until Stephanie said “even weathermen carry an umbrella” I thought you were talking about Bill Ayres bunch.
Now that’s sad.
Stephanie, I think it more likely that Carter would look at the flood that he’d failed to forecast, and pronounce it a deserved retribution for our greed and arrogance.
This is what distinguishes him from Obama, who’d not only forecast the flood, but then blow up the damn to make damn sure it happened.
You’ve had conservative governors before and you can again. The fact that you’re thinking about getting into politics is a very good sign, I think, Colonel.
(Also, again, I’m positive that Minnesota can turn it around as well.)
Remember the “Game” Obama played with the oil spill? “What makes me look good?” The “Game” he played with Egypt?
This is all a “Game” to Obama. Sometimes you have to make a late hit or a hard foul for a statement. That time is now.
Then all you guys in neighboring states can listen to local talk radio and smile all day long, too.
It’s really sweet, I’m not going to lie.
Among them were a proposal from Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., to eliminate funding for the president’s Teleprompter and one from Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, to strip funding for the alteration, repair or improvement of the executive residence of the White House and instead divert that amount to deficit reduction.
Womack told Fox News Tuesday afternoon that he pulled his amendment because he wasn’t able to get an estimate on how much it would save.
“I think we made our point,” Womack said. “We’re asking people to do more with less. And I think the president ought to lead by example. He is already a very gifted speaker. And I think that’s one platform he could do without.”
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/15/house-prepares-chop-spending-remainder/#ixzz1E9ceGqUV
Womack’s farting in the general direction of the WH. I kinda like the smell. Am I weird?
I just realized: It’s 51 degrees outside, and I haven’t had a cigar since before Thanksgiving.
Later all.
Rainy and miserable here.
Suites my mood…
Terrific rant Jeff. Well said, well put, nice caps! I think what we’re missing is the politician willing to take on the role of “the villain” because a villain is what’s needed to tell the entitlement classes they can’t have what they’ve been used to. Christie is a good example of a guy who’s willing to be hated by libs (and some repubs) to do the right thing. Fla. Gov Rick Scott seems to be emerging similar to Christie- today he put the kibbosh on high speed rail, which was an incredibly wasteful project- he’s getting based in the local media because apparently high speed rail was the solution to all of our economic problems. Neither Scott and christie seem to worry much about their next job- they’re willing to shoulder the burden and risk not being re-elected to do the right t hing. I supported Scott during the election, primarily because he was not part of the system and did not need to reach across the aisle to secure future jobs. McCollum was a 30 year career politician and I have no doubt would have snapped up the light rail money without giving it a second thought.
The villains need to step up, do whats right, not popular. If they do, they’ll end up being heroes in the long run.
64 degrees here. WTF am I doing inside? Oh, yeah. Cleaning.
LBascom: Raaainist!!
I’m also tired of the left/right crap.
Partisan politics are all well and good when one has the luxury of such petty squabbles. However, those who still play the left versus right game and then turn around and talk about budget cuts demonstrate they are not serious.
The survival of the Republic is at stake. The political games have to stop.
This fellow from the Chicago Boyz ( http://tiny.cc/htd7j ) seems to be on the same page with you JeffG.
I say call him out. Don’t fear the race card; it’s been played so often over the last few years as to have lost it’s efficacy with most Americans anyway, at least it seems that way to me.
Call him out. Because for all of his alleged Brilliance! and Superior Temperment!, I’ve noticed that he doesn’t do so well when challenged directly and repeatedy.
C’mon baby…
Don’t fear the race card
We can be really staunch
A play off a comment from a long ago thread ( http://tiny.cc/zz5mi)
By the way: people in Islamist countries? Stone their own mothers and daughters and sons to death. And Lara Logan heard “Jew jew jew!” as she was being sexually brutalized and beaten.
I don’t stand with these backward-ass fucks, and I won’t until they sign on to a Constitution that prevents barbarism and embraces individual liberty and natural rights for all. The rest is propaganda pushed on us by the left. The left lies. Fuck them. And fuck the scum they pretend to defend — but instead consider cute little brown sandaled pets.
Go back to the very beginnings of this site. I have been pointing out the failures — and evils — of “multiculturalism” since day one. Now, European world leaders are saying aloud that the multicultural project is a failure.
It isn’t. It has worked exactly how it was intended to work.
And we’ve been brainwashed and cowed into embracing the tools of our own destruction — because not doing so marks you as a racist, homophobe, xenophobe, nativist, jingoist, chauvinist, and on and on and on and on.
By characterizing as nativist calls for assimilation — and winning the rhetorical field, as PC language continues to show — the left has managed to assimilate us into their own collectivist idea.
Irony!
Obama’s “decency” oft asserted, never demonstrated.
That cigar went too fast.
You have a gift Jeff. Clarity.
Nice article on the perils of democracy: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/why_worship_democracy.html
And another good one on Solzhenitsyn that contains this gem:
http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2011/02/15/the-samizdat-remains-the-same/
Logan was also saved by Egyptian women, who were presumably mostly Muslim. Rape and sexual assault is very uncommon in Egypt. But a mob of men, fired up by endemic “Jew” hatred, and a blond western women…well bad things can happen. The proper response to that barbaric situation should have been the immediate shooting of the most culpable of that mob.
Multiculturalism is a lie. Cultures are NOT equal. You can objectively make choices between them. And anyone who thinks Egyptian culture is some model we should follow is nuts. If you want to be a Muslim, good for you. I do not have a problem with Islam as a choice, I just choose not to have its baggage foisted on me, not to have to apologize for attacks done in its name on my country and its citizens, or face the accusation of racisim or bigotry for merely pointing out things that should be objectively obvious to anyone.
b…bu…but… di, how can that be? Real Socialism hasn’t ben tried yet.
And if it has, Real True Socialism hasn’t been tried yet. Not with the right people in charge, anyways.
My teachers and professors and wanna-be-if-only-I-were intellectuals in the media all told me!
Wait a minute. What if we’re wrong?
Maybe Nancy and Barry have us on the road to Surfdom!
If only we’d waited to find out what was in the bill before we tried to repeal it.
I’m in favor of the Charles Napier approach to this:
A story for which Napier was noted involved a delegation of Hindu locals approaching him and complaining about prohibition of Sati, often referred to at the time as suttee, by British authorities. This was the custom of burning a widow alive on the funeral pyre of her husband. The exact wording of his response varies somewhat in different reports, but the following version captures its essence:
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; [then] beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.
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But Britain, back then, was more … British.
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Not so. Or rather, yes, but that’s because much of what we consider rape wouldn’t be considered rape in Egypt. I actually heard an expert on one of the talk shows today speaking about the frightening way women in Egypt are treated. I’m going to defer to her.
Oh. And civility!
Rape and sexual assault is very uncommon in Egypt.
Sexual harrassment on the other hand, seems to be a feature of everyday life:
Shhh. Don’t tell Amanda. She might have to choose sides.
That piece of shit has resigned. And even cesspool of progtard conventional wisdom like NYU is better for it.
in Nir Rosen’s defense, he doesn’t have a vagina
… that he knows of.
Yeah, I knew he resigned. I just wanted people to see.
It’s a pity we don’t have codes of honor from times that were, shall we say, more patriarchal.
Because if there’s a gormless worm who deserves to be called and made to defend his manhood on the field of honor, it’s Nir Rosen.
Forgive the implied threat of VIOLENCE! there. I’m sure you all understand.
called out, I meant. As in challenged. As in slapped across the mouth with a leather glove.
Liberals are the tolerant ones. Don’t ever forget that, or they’ll make you sorry.
They are stealing from me and my family, and are angling to turn my son into their wage slave.
I will resist.
Sexual harassment, of the hoot and grope variety – particularly in crowds, is present most anywhere around the entire Mediterranean Sea, including those oh so enlightened European state of Italy and Spain.
Nir Rosen may have lost his gravy train, but he still needs an ass kicking.
I’ve always liked this story. In the academy though, it is sneered at. Colonialism. Sure, it’s wrong to burn the chick. But the greater offense was not showing tolerance to the Other.
Whatever. Blow me, Other. And get off my lawn before I fill your ass up with buckshot.
Liberals are the tolerant ones.
Statists on the other hand….
Rosen, and that black supremecist (that’s right, I said it) on the Dallas city council, and all the other examples of leftist civil/victim’s/minority “advocacy” condescension and hypocrisy that we’re all familiar with demonstrate that statism in all it’s forms is corrosive of the humane instincts.
After all, dependents need patrons in the same way that serfs need lords and slaves need masters, and the affects are the same, though not to the same degree.
I’m with you, Jeff. These Dirty Socialists have plundered this nation’s heart right out of her.
Complaints that the two largest entitlement programs that ‘can’t be touched’: Medicare and Social Security. Which party owns those? While it’s nice to be able to support all the humanity we can, what happens when the burden becomes greater than the capacity to support? What happens when the money dries up? TANSTAAFL, bitches.
Seeing the Union Thugs protest and squirm in Wisconsin just brought a smile to my face. May it do so to yours as well.
Maybe for once states will follow Wisconsin’s lead, instead of California’s.
I am not disagreeing with you Jeff, or suggesting Egypt culture is something we should aspire to. It is a fucked up place. Muslim treatment of women is contemptable. But I did not see or hear of much violent crime in Egypt when I lived there.
Sexual oogling and groping of western women at the pyramids? Yeah that occurred. Fat girls from Germany and the Netherlands marrying Egyptian men trying to get visa and money out of them (and often ending up disappointed by the realionship)? That occurred. Unmarried Egyptian women traveling unescorted (beyond school or work) in Cairo? It was not common, for obvious cultural reasons that they would be perceived as whores. It is a very sexually repressed place.
Which is why I often crossed the border to Israel. Where Israeli girls commonly hitchhike by themselves along the highway. No problems, especially since she will have an uzi or M-16 slung over her shoulder from miltary service. And where you can go to a bar and meet young ladies. And no one called them whores. And if they were interested they would let you know. Sometimes they even initiated it.
I also said: “The proper response to that barbaric situation should have been the immediate shooting of the most culpable of that mob.”
Which I am sure would get nods of approval from Messrs Napier, Churchill, and the rest of the elect if they were around to hear it.
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I like this place more better now. I will get a cupcake what’s tasty for to celebrate. brb
On today’s Ricochet podcast, they were saying that one of the GOP’s messaging problems is that they’re all about “cutting the budget” and “slashing spending” when in fact they should couch their actions in terms of putting the economy back on its feet, because a healthy economy is the only thing that can pay off our debts.
Then Steyn observed that it is outright impossible to build an economy robust enough and strong enough to keep up with a spendthrift government.
As I’ve always said, socialism is the economic equivalent of a perpetual-motion machine: no matter how wonderful it would be to have this endless supply of energy, no matter how clever you are (even da Vinci tried to build one), you can’t make the thing work, because there’s no way to break the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
“I will get a cupcake what’s tasty for to celebrate. brb”
giggle
because there’s no way to break the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
not even from dilithium crystals or unobtainium.
Truth is not a defense.
the skinny blond’s cpac meme is pushed
fat rino man push #1
fat rino man push #2
link
fat rino man push #3
Leave it to The President to put the economy back on it’s feet, di:
What a tiny little man is The President.
Don’t subatomic particles kinda do that?
Oh look, it’s people who aren’t us choosing our nominee. Again.
Which I take to mean “we’ve got to fool the Rs into nominating anyone but that horrid woman!”
Because she’s so unelectable and polarizing, dontcha know.
I’ve got no huge qualms against Christie; he’s awesome at what he’s doing. And I suppose I’d take an honest non-conservative R over someone who talks a good game, but won’t follow through. (See: McCain’s 2010 campaign, or the upcoming campaign from Orrin Hatch.) A principled, trustworthy RINO doesn’t necessarily scare me. I’d have happily pulled the lever for Giuliani last time, had an appropriately-labeled lever still been available.
He’ll, I’ll vote for anyone over President Dipshit in 2012, with the possible exceptions of Teh Huck. Or Michael Medved.
But I’ve still got my heart set on President Snow-Hoochie.
Acutally Ann Coulter is pushing Christie too. Over Romeney I get, but also over Palin. And even if Ann thinks Sarah is unelectable, why Chris “I heart Castle” Christie?
Cupcake? Bah. I had a Napoleon.
Coulter says that Palin is doing awesome where she is and besides, the office of president would be a step down for her.
Why Christie? She is in the NY-DC sphere, so she is closer to the reportage of Christie’s actions. Coulter talks a good game but has a tendency to go all beltwayish on some things.
The main attraction I find in Christie is I think he is probably the most likely to take the gloves off and smack the Little Darling right in the fucking nose.
Ann probably agrees.
herman cain can smack the baracky in the nose. he ain’t a rino.
It’s funny because I ♥ Christie right where he is. New Jersey needs him more than just about anyplace — with the possible exceptions of California and Illinois.
Cain is starting to draw fire from the left. Which is a good sign.
Christie is also actually doing it where the doing ain’t easy. As compared to, say, a Facebook warrior.
I agree McGehee!
Anyone notice how when handicapping the presidential race tonight on O’Reilly, Dennis Miller omitted Palin? Maybe if the Republican establishment ignores that gauche snowbilly, she will just go away. All the more reason to vote for her, I say.
Please keep doing what you have been doing here. Nobody does it quite like you. Patrick can go pound sand, along with those who think that they can tame the leftist rattlesnake if they are nice enough to it.
Idiots.
In no relation to almost any specific comment, I say “boy, howdy!”
Don’t subatomic particles kinda do that?
If you can build a perpetual-motion machine from subatomic particles, you get fruit cup for lunch.
‘zono i don’t.
i say instead,
“boom, shaka-laka.”
lulz
I think Mr. Froman has summed it up.
What Christie is doing there is leadership. His every word and deed is battle line time and he is being demagogued at every turn. But he keeps on. I have no idea if this translates into POTUS material, but it wallops most of the rest of the field.
PS–did Happyfeet get banned, or just red-carded?
Yeah. I mean, it’s not like Palin has ever faced any opposition…
” I have no idea if this translates into POTUS material, but it wallops most of the rest of the field.”
is herman cain or sarah palin on this field?
I’m going to treat the primaries as if I’m voting for someone who represents my interests. I care not a whit about electability, because electability is going to be determined by who has the better message at the time of the general election (minus the 10-15 pts the media gives to the Dems). And it ain’t like the press ain’t going to go after ANY nominee the Republicans come up with.
May as well be a conservative / classical liberal. And that means anyone who tells me it is uncouth to worry about the borders — and that to do so suggests I hate Mexicans — is out right from the start. If you are going to swear to uphold the Constitution should you win, you might start out your campaign promising to do just that — not pandering for the “Hispanic vote”. Hispanics can vote for liberty and the Constitution, too. They aren’t being excluded, and they don’t need special invitations.
jesus allah,
how much more god damned info do i need about this fuck head precedent?
oh i forgot he is a “good man” fock you .
And I repeat: can I get a “Hell YEAH!”?
Ronald Reagan got more Democrats and moderates to vote for him than any of the “moderate” Republican nominees after him. And he do NOT “reach out” to the squishy middling middle, as so many alleged conservative talking heads are saying we should do, he stated his philosophy clearly and unmistakably. It was obvious to everyone that he believed in what he was saying and believed in this country. He inspired the American public, he didn’t pander to it.
“Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?
Let us show that we stand for fiscal integrity and sound money and above all for an end to deficit spending, with ultimate retirement of the national debt.
Let us also include a permanent limit on the percentage of the people’s earnings government can take without their consent.
Let our banner proclaim a genuine tax reform that will begin by simplifying the income tax so that workers can compute their obligation without having to employ legal help”
reagan 1975
i want to utterly defeat these idiots. do you?
fat rino #5:
“posted at 10:42 pm on February 16, 2011 by Allahpundit
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“With just one impressive speech, Chris Christie put three full days of CPAC speakers to shame.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/16/quotes-of-the-day-598/
steely dan – the royal scam
And he did it by calling out the foreign policy “moderates” and pragmatists (some would say realists) who thought the Soviets were good men whom we could deal with and with whom we had to deal if we weren’t going to be defeated by international communism. He said lots of unhelpful things that scared women and children.
In other words, he was opposed to “losing more slowly.” He challenged us as a people to face our fear of losing and dare to do what was necessary to win.
The “Age” of Reagan is over? Not hardly. Reagan is more relevant than ever, if we’re willing to learn from his example.
New Router, Im listening to “Here at the Western World Right Now.”
I tried to do Allah P a solid when I was at the NYP, in meatpsace. Not sure if it worked out since I never learned his name.
I like the guy. He called Andrea Harris a realy dirty word once. I like that.
If anyone is interested, here’s another blunt article about US spending.*
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/faking_our_way_to_sovereign_ba.html
“President Obama continues to revel in his world of fantasy and duplicity while the economy and world crumbles. Mr. Obama appears delusional and more interested in political posturing than constructive effort.”
And then there’s this gem:
“Head-in-the-sand politics must end. Feigned ignorance and cowardice will not serve politicians well. Reality is on the way and they are apt to be run over by it. For politicians like Majority Leader Reid, the remainder of this article may be detrimental to your health. Do not proceed without a cardiac care unit on standby.”
*The tone of the article is enough to give the civilized crew a case of the vapors. Maybe even swoon.
go baracky and “slime” magazine:
“In the days ahead, I will propose removing the roadblocks that have slowed our economy and reduced productivity. Steps will be taken aimed at restoring the balance between the various levels of government. Progress may be slow — measured in inches and feet, not miles — but we will progress. It is time to reawaken this industrial giant, to get government back within its means, and to lighten our punitive tax burden. And these will be our first priorities, and on these principles there will be no compromise.”
hey let us do kids feeding!!11!! just like raygun
You also might be pleasantly surprised to find many “Hispanics” and others who are recent legal immigrants are not very thrilled with the concept of illegal immigrants taking jobs, taking services, and flouting the law.
For what it’s worth: I don’t think Christie is a RiNO per se. I think he’s a good Republican who supports the candidates wearing the Republican label, and that unfortunately includes a number of RiNO’s like Castle. I think the reality of NJ politics is going to make him squishy on a lot things that I, as a conservative, would rather he not. He’s made some bonehead plays (WTC site mosque, anyone?) that give me pause, but I don’t think they’ll be hangups if he stops making them.
I’m not particularly keen to see him run for President. He’s weak on the 2nd Amendment, and that’s a problem for me, personally.
But if he succeeds in saving NJ from the progressive kleptocracy that’s ruined the state, I’d give him the respectful hearing which that achievement will have earned him. That I guess, will be in about 2020. Hopefully not 2016.
Other than dealing with spending issues, what else is Christie “actually doing” that ought to excite us? Appointing a judge with questionable ties to Islamists? Telling people to shut up about the about the Ground Zero mosque? His position gun control?
I would vote for him over Obama, but he’s not a conservative/classical liberal.
Think anybody will have the guts to say that the President himself is the biggest roadblock to economic recovery, that he’s the largest imbalance between the public sector and the private sector, and that if he meant what he said about removing roadblocks he’d tender his resignation immediately?
Yeah. That’s what I think too.
Carter speaks:
Obama responds.
Yet a certain small but influential ethnic group will vote overwhelmingly for who in 2012?
i don’t like billy cristal calling the shots.
he’s [Christie] not a conservative/classical liberal.
Maybe I’m just dreaming of an America where it’s safe for politicians like him (Oh, and Huckabee too, I suppose) to be Democrats.
fu weakly std
Yet a certain small but influential ethnic group will vote overwhelmingly for who in 2012?
Maybe not.
“an America where it’s safe for politicians like him (Oh, and Huckabee too, I suppose) to be Democrats.”
what’s a demonrat? what party?
so when is it said to black america “you live on the demonrats’ plantation”? nice section 8 housing you got?
Just dreaming of an America where Christie and other fiscally conservative, socially moderate Republicans represent the left wing of acceptable (i.e. electable) political beliefs newrouter.
What? Tim Blair’s old web admin? What on Earth for?
At the same time it’s said to Jewish America “nice ghetto you got here” to hispanic America “nice barrio…,” etc. etc.
i.e. when somebody has the guts to say that “melting pot” isn’t a false ideal.
To my mind, Christie is akin to a fiscally-sound old school big-city Democrat: think Rizzo or Daley Sr.
Which makes him the second coming of Ronald Reagan compared to where the Democrat party’s gone over the last 40 years.
I’m down with Ernst — a world in which Christie could be a respectable, electable Democrat would be a fundamentally better world.
In a sane world, Nancy Pelosi would get elected to the board of her homeowner’s association exactly once.
Oh. And I see that the purpleshirts are on the march again.
Child abuse too?
Where’s Zell Miller when you need him? His sort has gone extinct.
Also, I’m skeptical about Watson beating Jennings and that other guy at Jeopardy. Even Jennings said that more than half the game is hitting the buzzer before everyone else, so really what we witnessed was the fact that the machine had faster reflexes than the hoomans.
Completely expected that, belatedly. I heard the adverts for this and went “of course the machine’s going to win; Jeopardy is designed so that a machine could play it flawlessly”. Did they really think it was even going to be a fraction as interesting as Deep Blue?
I like the guy. He called Andrea Harris a realy dirty word once. I like that.
“Reporter,” reporter?
I just sent the following to Jeff G.
Let me be clear: I feel that way not because I’m wailing with emotions but because there are certain emotions that some conservatives treat as functional Liberal. I probably used to feel that way. Not anymore. Our presentation should reflect our anger and extreme concern about spending and taxes and foreign policy and individual liberty. If you are not feeling the sorts of emotions that Jeff and I and al and others in this fine group feel (along with Christie and Paul Ryan and others) then you have raised the bar on civility and presentation and lowered the bar on the most important issues.
Fer cryin’ out loud, happyfeet, you are prepared to get angry at certain issues in the past. How about noting that anger and outrage is critical to how we feel about our financial and freedom situations under CESMI? Express it, shout it out and let people know that you feel the way Peter Finch did in Network.
“I’m mad as hell and am not going to take this anymore!”
Guinspen…a misspelling late at night. Preview is my friend.
Spiny Norman…She simply was an ugly person to discuss things with on an MB. Bitter and personal. If you read her blog though, the rank pain and difficulty of her life shown through. She appeared to exist on blegs and temp jobs, barely able to make ends meet in some Orlando apartment. So what she took in life she gave back in cyberspace.
I always imagined Thor as having a similarly sad life, though Harris, to be clear, was at least honest about the importance of cats and Dr. Who to getting through it all.
Agreed, Ernst.
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2011/02/coulter-gets-christie-love-but-loses-credibility.html
WHAT BJ -fucking – TEX SAID!!
Same goes double for me.
(boy, I’m really saving on creative energy by just re
Jeff G. posted on 2/16 @ 9:10 am
Eventually nearly everyone who has ever spent time here will have something unkind to say about me.
OK. You’re an asshole. There. Feel better? I know I do.
Oh. On that other thing? Right there with ya.
I’m at the point where I’m certain that everyone, and I mean everyone is stealing from me. But…I can’t go all unibomber because the wife hates facial hair, and the local militia won’t let me stay at the Hilton, so I’ll rant. I’ll cajole and try and convince friends and enemies alike that the first step toward personal responsibility is personal freedom and the biggest threat to personal freedom is government debt. And if anyone can’t see why that is, then they have never read a history book in their life… and if they did, they interpreted it to mean that all white men suck, Marx was right, and a truly just world would be filled with nothing but matriarchal groups of aboriginal hunter-gatherers. Who are Atheists. Or Muslim.
And let’s air this out. I’m not a Republican. I’m not even really a conservative as such. I vote Republican because they at least pretend to take the things I care about seriously. I know they, for the most part, don’t. I cannot stand the naked GOP cheerleading from most talk radio and web sites. I’m optimistic about my future, but couldn’t really give a fuck about yours. I like kids. My kids. I am at heart a despot. If you elected me, I can tell you, I’d have half of you in irons and the other half catering to my every whim. I am a cynical bastard and an unpleasant person. You deluded masses are lucky to have me around to set you straight. And so…
Prediction time.
We’ll know if the GOP is serious about this state of affairs if they start directing a push for Paul Ryan in the early primaries. If Romney, Huckubuckachuck or Palin is the big news, Obama wins in a walk.
I guess it depends on what we mean by serious, doesn’t it? Are we serious about defeating Obama at all costs? Are we serious about capturing control of Congress for the foreseeable future? Or are we serious about laying down markers (as Jeff likes to say) about returning to a more classically liberal and/or Reagan conservative conception of a society governed by Constitutionally enumerated constraints and free markets? I mean, what is it we’re trying to win here, and what are we prepared to sacrifice in order to win it?
Well, I did wish you would’ve banned Thor sooner. Does that count?
I like the guy. He called Andrea Harris a [really] dirty word once. I like that.
[He called her] “Reporter,” reporter?
the importance of… Dr. Who to getting through it all.