If Only It Were That Simple!

The writer of this essay claims to be a libertarian, but it strains credulity to believe he's truly as naive as this would seem to indicate:

I think Gay Inc. and Anti-Gay Inc....need each other badly, because whether they will admit it or not, both are working toward a common goal --- the continued stigmatization of a minority for political ends.

Both sides need this stigma, and both sides want being gay to matter, but for different political purposes. 

Without the stigma, who on earth would care about gay identity politics?

Does he really believe that "AntiGay Inc." would have ever come into being had it not been for "Gay Inc."?  Is he totally oblivious to the alinskyite lust for destruction that underlies the whole "gay" agenda?  One is tempted to believe he's a pretender.

**THE** Cure...

for the 44 year reign of the poisonous mentality! (From an email I received.)

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.

The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
It could not be any simpler than that.
 
Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.


These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.

Marine Poison

No, this isn't about some jarhead.  It's about fatuous legislation.

Someone I know recently bought some Solaray Kidney tabs.  For the first time ever, the container had a huge tag hanging around its neck shouting "California Proposition 65."  A lot of head scratching as to how a bunch of harmless herbs suddenly have become "toxic."  Turns out, kelp is the culprit:  it contains natural arsenic...in sub-microscopic amounts.

Just imagine:  for millennia, the various fauna that nibble on kelp have been exposed to ARRRRGHsenic!!!

Water they going to do to survive...now that they KNOW about the unmentionable?  Will our dear Barry have to start a whole new agency, "Kelp-Eaters Ministry of Defence"?

Take That, Pinkos!

The Reds like to boast that they were the ones who birthed workers' rights and unions.  Another one of their lies.  There was a Protestant-based union (which started out as more of a guild) that long preceded the pinko unions.  The KoL expressly rejected Socialism and radicalism, as well as strikes.
 

Missed Opportunity, LOL!

Comment re SW power outage:  "It should have remained inoperative and allow[ed] all the greenies to try sticks for fire creation so as to cook and stay warm. Practical experience in living often leads to changes in radical thinking."

Agreed (except for the suffering of all the other, sensible, non-Greenist citizens).

The Better To Enslave you, Dearie...

Threat of a dirty bomb in NYC garnered this comment. “I mean, it’s been how long since 9/11? So we kind of get used to having the security around." That attitude is precisely what they're grooming you for:  multiply it across the Land of the (Once) Free, and you can kiss the last vestiges of the Constitution good-bye.

Why The Never-ending Déjà Vu?

"During the late 1960s, I watched in despair as my brilliantly gifted [American] piano students suddenly began to speak as if someone had replaced their brains with prerecorded tapes. They spoke in phrases—repeated mechanically—which were neither the product of, nor accessible to, intelligent consideration. At first, these tapes seemed to contain only a few slogans about "love and peace." Fruitful conversation became impossible, but that was merely regrettable. The situation became alarming when the "tapes" began to include words and phrases that had become familiar to me in Hungary during the Nazi and Soviet occupations, and which contributed to the reasons for my decision to escape. Worse yet, the words and phrases were soon followed by practices of similar pedigree.

"Reactionary," "exploitation," "oppressor and oppressed," and "redistribution" were some of the words taken straight from the Marxist repertoire. The term "politically correct" first came to my attention through the writings of Anton Semionovich Makarenko, Lenin’s expert on education. Adolf Hitler preferred the version "socially correct." Then came the affirmative action forms which classified people by ancestry—first signed into law in Nazi Germany—and the preferential treatment of specific categories, introduced by the Stalinist government in 1950."  (Balint Bazsony, America's 30 Year War)

Utopian Scheme #59

When I first stumbled on this concept, I thought it was a case of hegemony of the ballerinas.  But actually, pantisocracy was another bungled "Garden of Eden" hatched by Coleridge and Southey.

When will they ever learn?

Suspicions Confirmed

When the news about Breivik & the Norwegian island blast first broke, my immediate hunch was:  false flag.  Because who'd benefit from the fallout?  Precisely:  the NWOers (whose handmaidens are the Leftists).  Just now, I stumbled on a brilliant confirmation of my theory.  The writer also mentions something that really astonished me: 

The killing in 1967 of an unarmed demonstrator by a police officer in West Berlin set off a left-wing protest movement and put conservative West Germany on course to evolve into the progressive country it has become today.

Now a discovery in the archives of the East German secret police, known as the Stasi, has upended Germany’s perception of its postwar history. The killer, Karl-Heinz Kurras, though working for the West Berlin police, was at the time also acting as a Stasi spy for East Germany.

One single solitary grain of sand can throw the whole watch out of kilter.

Neutral Gear?

An anagram for "coasting" is "agnostic."  Does that mean spiritual drifting? ;)

Departures

If you've not seen this fabulous Japanese film, run to your nearest video shop and buy it!


As an appetizer, here's one tidbit that left me guffawing:  the protagonist and a secretary are standing by some caskets, discussing embalming.  The secretary says, "This is a niche market."  (No, the film is not slapstick, though especially in the first part, there's a lot of humor.)

What's In A Name?

Consider the first name of Russian composer Mussorgsky:  "Modest."  {gasp}  Did his parents hate him?  Isn't that choice of name a form of child abuse?  Can you imagine what a guy with a name like that would go through as a teen or in the service?  I mean, sure, I'm all for not saddling your kid with insipid names like Bill, Bob or Tom, but..."Modest"?  Surely you jest!  

(Yeah, I know, in Russian, "Modest" probably doesn't have the same meaning/ring.)

Delicate Balance

One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark.  ~Chinese Proverb


Back in the 70's and early 80's, you'd often see a bumper sticker reading "Question Authority!"  It's of course true that the herd mentality (aka "group think") is lethal, but at the same time, on whose authority can anybody tell me to question authority?  If we question in a constructive way, then fine (i.e. to avoid having a society as symbolized in Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery"), but if we are advocating sheer nihilism or anarchy, then we're cutting off our nose to spite our face.

Couldn't Have Found A Better Term For Them! :)

Just encountered a dandy description of the majority of our "leaders."

snol·ly·gos·ter    n. Slang   One, especially a politician, who is guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles.

Like An Ocean

I swim in words.  I bathe in them. 
They mesmerize me.