Theremin for the poor man, LOL!

Ever since I found out what the amazing instrument is that the Beach Boys used in their music, I've been fascinated by it.  Little did I know that my new-found fascination with water glass music would also end up acquainting me with a cheapo version of the theremin (tho I hear say that one should not try it except on saws that are at least 20 years old).

Guess this is whatcha call...cutting edge music?

CPS: the Leftists' Trump Card

The Cloward-Piven Strategy was inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles (which erupted after police had used batons to subdue a black man suspected of drunk driving). In their 1966 article, "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty," Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people can advance only when "the rest of society is afraid of them," Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would "the rest of society" accept their demands.

The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inadequacy of the welfare state. Cloward-Piven's early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1972 book, "Rules for Radicals." When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judaeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one.   (source)

Hubris the Destroyer

The recognition of the insuperable limits to his knowledge ought indeed to teach the student of society a lesson of humility which should guard him against becoming an accomplice in men's fatal striving to control society - a striving which makes him not only a tyrant over his fellows, but which may well make him the destroyer of a civilization which no brain has designed but which has grown from the free efforts of millions of individuals.   (Hayek)

 

"Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing meat to the tiger, the tiger will turn vegetarian."  (Heywood Broun)

The Logical Outcome

Critics of same-sex "marriage" have long pointed out that if you redefine marriage to include 2 men or 2 women, that serves as a precedent for arguing that polygamy, incest, pedophilia, and bestiality should also be recognised as valid forms of "love."  How accurate their predictions were!

Speakers addressed the around 50 individuals in attendance on themes ranging from the notion that pedophiles are “unfairly stigmatized and demonized” by society to the idea that “children are not inherently unable to consent” to sex with an adult. Also discussed were arguments that an adult’s desire to have sex with children is “normative” and that the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) ignores the fact that pedophiles “have feelings of love and romance for children” in the same way adult heterosexuals and homosexuals have romantic feelings for one another.  (Read more here.)

Ought 2 B Memorized K-12

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

Deja Vu

"A county grand jury is weighing whether to indict Wilson in Brown's shooting."  Cumpean and Ramos all over again.