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As American society begins its slow burn …

…Obama plays golf for the 83rd time during his presidency.

— Which, I guess we can be thankful he’s hasn’t taken up the fiddle. Such obvious imagery wouldn’t play well to the post-ironic, anti-capitalist, big government “anarchists” actively demanding a centralized tyranny of bureaucrats and a permanent political class who promise to control every aspect of their lives. As one of the organizers of Occupy Wall Street told Sean Hannity, she trusts elected politicians to “distribute the wealth” fairly and equitably.

It’s autumn in America. And what’s astounding is, these hipster protesters advocating for their own enslavement to the state don’t even realize that their being allowed to protest at all is a condition of what they are protesting against.

May as well be carrying signs that read “We Demand A Country in Which We Are Finally Silenced!”

35 Replies to “As American society begins its slow burn …”

  1. […] As American society begins its slow burn … It’s autumn in America. And what’s astounding is, these hipster protesters advocating for their own enslavement to the state don’t even realize that their being allowed to protest at all is a condition of what they are protesting against. […]

  2. Danger says:

    Well placed sir,

    KEEP FIRING!!!

  3. sdferr says:

    Republicans could now respond as Democrats threatened to in 2005 — by grinding the Senate to a halt on a range of issues and blocking unanimous consent on even routine matters.

    I’ve seen written that Harry Reid acted out of anger Thursday night motioning to over-rule the Parliamentarian, which is to say, impetuously. I don’t think it wise to assume as much, however, since, as the suggestion in the quote “. . . could now respond as Democrats threatened to . . . by grinding the Senate to a halt . . .”, when looked at from a slight distance (maybe with squinty-eyes even), appears to undergird Obama’s campaign message (he’s Harry Truman, you know, Obama, despite not being an anti-Communist).

    So, it may be that Reid wasn’t all that impetuous, but far more calculating in his expectations of events.

  4. sdferr says:

    A vote for Romney is a vote for idiocy.

  5. Obama mulligans while America burns.

  6. geoffb says:

    So, it may be that Reid wasn’t all that impetuous, but far more calculating in his expectations of events.

    I think so too.

  7. sdferr says:

    Harry himself has a problem though geoffb. Or should I say, many problems?

  8. sdferr says:

    Or to put that in plainer English, I don’t think Reid can continue to bring bills to the floor which help Obama on the one hand, and lose Democrat votes (like Obama’s JobsBill) on the other. The ostensible reason he had to blow-up the rules being, he knew damned well he was going to lose the demonstration amendment/votes the Republican’s were offering. Why on Earth would he offer such votes himself?

  9. geoffb says:

    I don’t expect that much will move in this till after they come back from Christmas/New Years recess. What I’m thinking of on the Senate Democrats side is a variation on the ploy that they used in 1968 at the convention. They need a howling mob at the door which the OWS is supposed to become in the fullness of time. Reid doesn’t need all the Democrats as he can usually craft things to peel away some Republicans like the Maine sisters.

    Not saying that it will work, just that he will try. YMMV.

  10. motionview says:

    The Occupiers are not some wild-eyed left wing fringe – they are Obama Democrats:
    80% of those polled said that the rich should pay higher taxes and that it’s fair that approximately the top 10% of tax payers pay more than 70% of the taxes in the US and about 40% of employed people pay no income tax.
    93% say that student loan debt should be forgiven
    98% believe that health care should be free
    98% believe that Insurance companies make too much money and some of their profits should be taken to pay for more healthcare for others
    95% believe that drug prices should be controlled
    88% agree with the statement that “The government should put some controls on CEO pay – like limited to 20x or 30x the lowest paid employee.”
    93% believe that communications like cell phone and internet access be a right and not just reserved for the rich and we should have free internet and cell phone service as a national goal.
    84% said they think that if a bank decides to implement a $5 debit card fee, the government should not allow it, while 16% said let them do what they want – customers can move.

  11. geoffb says:

    Congressman Tom McClintock delivered the following speech to the Council for National Policy:

    I want to welcome this groundbreaking scientific expedition to the savage lands of the Left Coast. You are here in California to answer an important theoretical question and now you have your answer.

    Yes, this is what Barack Obama’s second term would look like.

    Study it. Fear it. And then go home and make sure that it never happens to the rest of the country.

    Of course, in spite of all of its problems, California is still one of the best places in the country to build a successful small business. All you have to do is start with a successful large business.

    Laugh if you will, but as you whistle past this cemetery, do heed the medieval epitaph: “Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I; as I am now so you will be.”

    Mark that well, because if we lose this struggle for the future of our country, you too someday will live in a California – only without the nice climate.

    Bad policies. Bad process. Bad politics. Those are the three acts in a Greek tragedy that tell the tale of how, in the span of a single generation, the most prosperous and golden state in the nation became an economic basket case.

  12. happyfeet says:

    that’s so wonderfully said he should get a gold star

  13. serr8d says:

    The ‘real’ Socialists are giddy at the prospect that a ‘mass socialist movement’ might usher in a new political party, replacing the Democrats, whom they view as ineffectual.

    I’m not seeing Democrats as ineffectual. They’ve pretty much raped our little Republic. These, they must have even rougher plans.

    http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/pers-o08.shtml

  14. newrouter says:

    a doritos taco at least

  15. sdferr says:

    New? What could possibly be new about an idea centuries old and thoroughly disgraced?

  16. newrouter says:

    de·bauch·er·y
    ? ?[dih-baw-chuh-ree] Show IPA
    noun, plural -er·ies.
    1.
    excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures; intemperance.
    2.
    Archaic . seduction from duty, allegiance, or virtue.

    Star-Studded Bash For Chechen Warlord

    8:51am UK, Thursday October 06, 2011

    Amanda Walker, Russia correspondent
    Ramzan Kadyrov, the self-styled warrior king of Chechnya, has enjoyed multimillion-pound birthday celebrations complete with Hollywood actors and superstar musicians….
    The provocative singer was perhaps an odd choice for a leader who praises men for attacking women who do not wear headscarves.

    Shocking mobile phone footage from 2010 showed Chechen men shooting women with paintball guns as they walked down the street for not wearing traditional dress.

    Instead of condemning the attacks, Mr Kadyrov hailed them.

    The Kremlin-backed leader of the Russian republic has a fearsome reputation. His personal militia of thousands permeates Chechen society with fear.

    Link

  17. […] In other news, the President played his 83rd round of golf yesterday. I guess it’s better than an impromptu fiddle solo. […]

  18. Carin says:

    Baha haaa haa …he fans the flames of class warfare, then goes off golfing.

    The DC protesters look even whiter (and older) than the other groups. There is one guy on a Segway. The irony burns.

  19. geoffb says:

    Was Madison the Model? Looking more and more likely.

    The Collective Bargaining Congress and national Council of the American Association of University Professors stand in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement.

    Over the last several years, we have watched as those at the very top have prospered while the fortunes of those below the very top have stagnated or declined. The gap between rich and poor is greater than ever before in our lifetimes, and we need to stand up for those who are trying to improve their circumstances and provide for their families.

    The dedicated students whom we teach at institutions of higher education are being forced to pay more for tuition and go deeper into debt because of cuts in state funding, only to find themselves unemployed when they graduate.

    The majority of college and university faculty positions are now insecure, part-time jobs. In addition, attacks on collective bargaining have been rampant throughout the nation, as our job security, wages, health benefits, and pensions have been either reduced or slated for elimination.

    Therefore, it is time to stand up for what is right. We applaud the action the Occupy Wall Street movement has taken to highlight the inequity and unfairness of the society in which we live.

    We strongly support the movement and wish it every success. We are in this together.

    I can’t believe that their “Policy Documents and Reports” publication is known as “The [little] Redbook”.

  20. geoffb says:

    Anarchists for Big Government” Steyn link included with a not safe for anyone poster.

  21. newrouter says:

    Rev. Al Sharpton said Friday that no matter how “black” presidential candidate Herman Cain is, his conservative views are fundamentally at odds with the rest of the black community — and white people only like him because he says what they want to hear.

    Speaking on his radio program with Professor Karen Hunter — the same person who accused the Associated Press of racism for dropping the g’s in its reporting of a President Barack Obama speech — Sharpton essentially accused Cain of forgetting his roots when it comes to his politics.

    “How could anyone in their right mind — they grew up in the south and saw what they saw — and act like everyone that is unemployed and that is not rich did it to themselves?” Sharpton said. “So I would assume he is either socially ignorant or playing games to get votes, that he couldn’t possibly have grown up and come to that confusion unless he was one or the other.”

    Hunter protested the “playing games” idea, raising the specter of two prominent black conservatives generally abhorred by the traditionally liberal community: “He’s not Clarence Thomas, he’s not Alan Keyes, he’s not the stereotypical sellout black person who is pandering to white people.

    Link

  22. newrouter says:

    On NPR, Guest Compares Herman Cain to…Southern Segregationists?

    By Tim Graham | October 08, 2011 | 23:36

    NPR’s apparently a great place to go to denounce Herman Cain. On Friday’s edition of Tell Me More, host Michelle Martin cued up Cain’s remarks suggesting the Occupy Wall Street protests are “planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration.” Quite obviously, you can disagree with that theory without comparing Cain to segregationists.

    But that’s precisely what sports columnist and ESPN regular Kevin Blackistone said to Martin: “It sounds like to me what people who used to run the White Citizens Councils used to say in the South during the civil rights movement, that it was outside agitators who were coming in and stirring up black folks down there.”

    Link

  23. motionview says:

    CBS News Sunday Morning, I watch so you don’t have to(you can enjoy a more pleasurable Sunday Morning experience like scratching chalkboards or having someone beat you with a baseball bat).
    Anyway, it seems that a representative sample of the Occupiers would be an good-looking actor in a suit and an ex-Marine. The Occupiers don’t know what they want, but if you ask a leftist author it is all perfectly reasonable. Herman Cain is on the side of the Banksters. Barack Obama reluctantly acknowledges that the Occupiers have some valid reasons to be there, damn that Bush and these Republicans. No mention of any proctological protests.

  24. motionview says:

    Issa up on Fox News Sunday, after redistricting he’ll most likely be my rep next cycle. What a step up from Ken Calvert, who votes well and pushed E-Verify but is otherwise porky and low profile.

  25. sdferr says:

    Of course, motionview, my ol’ neighbor, Brother Juan wasn’t invited to comment on the treatment of his hero John Lewis in Atlanta yesterday, was he (I have to ask on account of my habit of skipping Brother Juan’s lie filled diatribes)?

  26. motionview says:

    An illegal alien’s gotta DREAM, right? California delenda est, Fruitloopistan libre!

  27. motionview says:

    I’m on TiVo delay sdferr Santorum is comparing himself favorably with Rick Perry.

  28. serr8d says:

    The mass socialisty movement known as #OWS did not get properly smacked down by the NYPD last night, which means we must suffer these fools yet another week. Which also means the Democrats will continue to work quickly to consolidate the movement as a “Baracky 2012” arm of #OFA. Whilst we look on, bemused.

  29. serr8d says:

    Let me know when to cue the “Road Warrior” ending.

  30. motionview says:

    I seriously used to see those hand gesture crowd manipulation tactics from the dorm/house students at Stanford. I would jokingly ask at a lab meeting if we needed to go around the table with their “fists of fury” thing, and the little pinkos and vegans would laugh (I know) and say, no, it is for gaining consensus. Of course it is not a consensus tool, the better “facilitators” can usually get whatever they want. (I know more about this than I’d like due to a story one little vegan told me about how they consensussed every single carnivore in some house to first be exiled to cooking all meat in the microwave in the basement, then eventually no meat cooking in-house all-together). True group manipulation behaviours – endless meetings, endless “consensus” tests, self-criticism sessions, and eventually everyone has at least one wiggling finger.

  31. sdferr says:

    Personally, I think we ought to treat a visit from socialism more or less as Judge Bean treats a visit from Bad Bob — (not Dirty Bad Bob of New Mexico, but the original Bad Bob, the mean one, the albino).

    Socialism isn’t our friend.

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  33. Dave in SoCal says:

    #27

    So after pushing it off and delaying up until the last possible minute, Governor Moonbeam finally went ahead and signed the Illegal Alien Dream Act. No surprise there.

    I wonder how long until the first class action lawsuit is filed against CA by the families of state residents/US citizens who are denied state funding for education.

  34. Joe says:

    But he cares about the poor and jobless. But a man needs to recreate!

    And if you spent any one on one time with Michelle, you would be on the links too.

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