And no, he wasn’t talking about those who clogged up bathrooms of private businesses or took dumps on police cars or held rape-ins at local parks or on private lots univited. At least, not this time.
Instead, our President was comparing with our own American beliefs the freedom-loving, revolutionary spirit of those who rose up during the Arab Spring to depose any and all despots who prevented them from expressing their laudable democratic desire to kill Jews, Christians, and other infidels; burn down embassies and consulates; rape and murder American diplomats; stone gays; mutilate, beat, and subjugate women; and place bounties on the heads of American citizens.
— Because sometimes otherwise peaceful revolutionary Arabs (that is, when they aren’t forced by honor to defend themselves from the existence of Jews, Christians, other infidels, embassies, consulates, gays, women, and speech) — as our own revolutionary war against oppressors should have taught us — have to fight for just as hard for their right to live in a barbaric backward totalitarian tyranny completely intolerant of differences as we do to assert our own individual autonomy, natural rights, and liberties to be secured by a government that has no legitimate power to infringe on those unalienable rights.
So you see? If you squint, it’s like, the same thing, really. Kindred spirits, we are! Except maybe for the public beheadings and the cellphone videos of ourselves dragging carcasses through the streets.
But that’s just nitpicking.
So. Squint. Don’t blaspheme. And eat your peas. Then all will be well.
Forward!
I think it likely that Obama recognized his own beliefs in the men and women who took to streets, but I really don’t see anything I have in common with them beyond the fact that we all have human DNA. So, perhaps he was again using the royal we.
Captain Narcissco goes back on his schizo State Department and blames the video, then marginalizes it, then perhaps defends reaction to “slander”.
Looked at in some odd way I suppose those remarks aren’t entirely incongruous but if little man had been presidential material we wouldn’t exactly be speculating wtf is going on.
One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, right?
Who knew Obama took foreign policy tips from Michael Moore.
The man’s a veritable geyser of moral equivalence, and you can set your watch by him.
I feel like I’ve flashed back to 1982, but Carter has a second term.
You know–a trip to Hell.
What has been helpful is to break out my previously-retired Cold War mindset for evaluating Soviet bullshit as filtered through a Non-Aligned media. It’s remarkably contemporary, and a mental life-saver. The anti-anti-communists are always with us, it seems–and they’re very proud of their progressive nature.
Dale,
I think I, too, shall dust off my Sovfilter. Jeff has been very helpful in teaching me the torture that the language has been undergoing, so I think I’ll be fully calibrated in no time.
All will be well, all will be well n’ all manner o’ things’ll be well ( paraphrasing ). Nah, unless we use ‘noise’ to put ‘bumps in the road’ over there? we are well and truly fucked. I don’t even see a MacArthur doing that though, mores the pity.
My solution? pull the hell out NOW. You’ve got the right of it Cranky, the Obamanation did see his own thoughts and more importantly, heart over there. how he responded was as tragig then as it is now.
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It’s a good thing I decided to save the Cold War decoder in a corner of my mind, too guys.
Dale, your flashback to 1982 Carter nightmare scenario probably explains the uptick in my bad dreams of late. I keep watching for inflation to hit us right between the eyes.
It’s already here Leigh. Can’t remember where I found it, but all foodstuffs are up, gas is up, oil,etc… These are things that the don’t count on the inflation index anymore.
OH!!! Rico at Theospark
Your tax dollars at work.
Yeah, that looks plausible.
We reached We’re All Screwed just under a decade ago, Blitz. No need to wonder why everything’s gone all exponential and stuff since then.
Jho, a decade ago? I was absolutely clueless. trying to catch up now. I do know that well and truly fucked can have many connotations, monetary AND the one I think more important, security. No doubt monetarily we’re screwed, so I like to concentrate on the other.
I didn’t mean that to sound like we all shoulda known way back then, Blitz. The point is that the fiat system is inherently unsustainable, breeds a universe of corrupt power-dealing, blows representative government right out of the water, and is Keynesian Socialism’s best friend, to coin a phrase.
LaChance just saw it, ran the numbers, and put it out there. The Press’s job is to deny that stuff and here we are.
As for security, that follows national strength and the US, via its fiat money reserve dollar, has been leveraging its ass off for decades. It’s either the best way to reach global statism or it’s the best way to play chicken with the globe just because you’ve been the reserve currency whose nation shipped all its manufacturing offshore and shipped all the bullshit thinking and culture onshore it possibly could.
Next up: Stagflation!
When all this QE picks up velocity we’re looking at Weimar/Zimbabwe inflation.
Now THAT I get Jho, Just read some consiacist email about going bact to the gold standard. What do you think of that?
Leigh? not as long as the putter in chief is in office. Bernanke is his bitch. QE3 was political.
oops. conspiracist, sorry Jho
Pablo?
a) math is hard
b) as long as oil is traded in dollars, as far as I can see ( but what do I know )the velocity will be slowed. not stopped, but delayed like a Higgs-Boson hitting a hydrogen atom.
C) no, no idea what that means, I just read it.
All shall love me and despair.
I’d like to see the internals on those polls frosty
It cannot be denied.
If you read Rico you’ll grasp that paper metals are being used to moderate the rate of climb in hard metals. Shy of confiscation, which I bet is coming, the guys at the top cannot overwhelm the natural tendencies of natural exchange like metals.
You can be sure they’ll have some other means and mechanism to deal with that.
Fortunately for them failure of fiat/reserve systems means they and not us get to design its replacement, which’ll be just another fiat system. I’m betting it’ll be global and will include a complete central cashier system, all of it electronic.
Plug into Machine, citizen. That is if you want to live.
If you think the mark of the beast lies in collectivizing morality — the trust of Jeff’s post if not this entire blog experience — wait until they lock all that in with exchange.
Yet another indication of the shortening of days, so to put it…
I agree Jho. been reading him a while, just am having trouble with the advancement of the paper/metal exchange over the last few months.
Math is obviously not a strong point, but I do expect confiscation, as proven by the recent taking of those gold coins held by a private citizen only trying to authenticate the double eagles.
I’ll not plug in to any machine my friend, grew up fishing farming hunting and racing ( building first !! ) cars. Barter is what I expect when ( not if ) it all comes crashing down.
Blitz, all that money that’s being printed is largely being used to buy our own debt, so it isn’t really in the economy. Once it gets out there and starts circulating, which eventually it must, say hello to massive inflation.
Watch wages.
That I did not know Pablo. thought it was being used to buy up mortgages from Fannie and Freddie and DOH!!! Yeah, I knew that.
Thing is, like I said. It will slow to a degree. doomsayers are totally correct, but just not in the time frame expected.
Watch wages.
This.
Sdferr? I pay my brother the exact same as 2 years ago. Thing is, expenses have gone through the effin roof due to regulations. This is a 2 person shop, never had nore than 2, so Ocare isn’t an issue but EPA? fuck me sideways with a frozen swordfish. Oil removal? Ventilation in the paint shop? and all the FUCKING PAPERWORK!! ( sorry for the caps ) are driving me …
Crazy batshit and out of business ( yeah yeah, not going there but still ! )
So you pay the brother less than 2 years ago in adjusted terms Blitz, though the same in nominal terms. But people like the Chicago teachers probably notice their wages slide against inflation, so they demand higher payment (whether they get it or not). When large numbers of people in various occupations behave similarly, I think we’ll see the ratchet begin it’s work.
I know all that Sdferr, I’m not good at getting thoughts out. I know what was meant, which is exactly what you just said, but to coin a phrase that I’ve come to despise ” inelegantly “
An all-electronic system would be great for the state, since it would hinder the underground economy.
Barter, here we come.
Cranky, Barter is what I expect and look forward to.
It’s already here, cranky. The Black Market has grown exponentially in just the last five to seven years.
There’s no other reason for my little town which boasts about 5000 citizens to have seven or more pawn shops and four gun stores.
Live in a town that’s the size of a city Leigh, we have none of the above. This IS massafuckits however, so who knows why?
On another note, my new better half is here… she hates it when I talk politics or moy …sometimes just when I talk!!! ( just kidding )
Check in later.
Some of those ‘kindred spirits’ all aflame in the deserts of Egypt and Libya wore Occupy-grade masks…
http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2012/09/whats-in-a-picture-islamicrage-meets-occupywallstreet/
Just waiting for a community organizer to lead ’em. They can have ours if they want.
Blitz – just move here.
They promise it will be a Randian paradise.
All you have to do learn enough Spanish to get by.
^is
That ‘free city’ will need an army capable of defeating the Hondurans, or else it will be nationalized within 30 years.
Squid – Not if you believe in South American exceptionalism.
Barter, here we come.
Used it last year to get some plumbing done. All the parties were delighted.
LTC John and Leigh, I have a handy title from the vaults:
http://www.amazon.com/What-When-Russians-Come-Survivors/dp/0812862422/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348610502&sr=8-1&keywords=what+to+do+when+the+russians+come
Good because it’s Robert Conquest, and he was basing it on his research into the Soviet horror. But…it is still remarkably topical, and helpful in dealing with all kinds of totalitarians and totalitarian wannabes.
Frosty is kind of a douchenozzle.
Frosty has gone bye-bye.
Thank you, Dale. I’ll take a look through it. “The Gulag Archipelago” was bad enough the first time around. I’ve had a copy of “The Black Book of Communism” for years. Now is probably a good time to read it.
Frosty melted away. Just like a lib to try building a snowman in September.