Tuesday - November 15, 2011
THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE
Someone wrote a letter to the editor of a magazine I read today, just bugged the hell oughta me. I let these things bother me. It isn’t the criticism. When it’s fair. But I’m bothered by the mindless stupidity.
Under the heading of “America, here I come!” was the following.
“I’m not a fan of the American way of life, and its brutal sink – or – swim attitude to success.”
The idiot never tells us what personal experience he has had with our way of life, or what exactly is it he knows. Has he ever lived for any length of time in America? Probably not. And as for sink or swim, what else is there should you find yourself in the drink? And if you’ve a goal of any sort, isn’t success the goal?
He goes on to say, and I don’t think he’s serious or I hope he isn’t serious, that he is
“seriously contemplating moving to the US because it (US) gets everything first.”
Gee, isn’t it nice to know our way of life has something this jerk approves.
He is referring to things tech. He says he “loves gadgets and the web” but apparently the problem is, many hi tech gadgets and toys for which he has a passion, are harder to get due to the fact that they seem to appear first in the USA and it then take a year and sometimes two years, for the newest must haves to appear on this side of the Atlantic. And that bothers him no end.
He asks for example, when the new Kindle Fire will arrive here? He wants it NOW!
“Not in two years, when the Americans have mastered it.”
He wants the UK to be more technology innovative,
“so we don’t have to watch enviously as some cocky New Yorker gets to grips with a new product ages before we do.”
It’s signed, Pete Murphy.
Well you stupid fuck wad, first of all you learn to swim a hell of a lot harder and a lot faster then your competition. But of course that’d be cruel and brutal by the lights of your home grown brake on success in the form of some unions. Or maybe it’s simply your own personal work ethic.
And Please … whatever you do Mr. Murphy …. stay the hell away from our country.
Enjoy what you have now and what you’ll get even if it is late, with the compliments of ;
THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE!
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Permalink • Wednesday - September 07, 2011
Free web course on the Constitution
I was listening to Rush Limbaugh today and he mentioned that Hillsdale College is running their second annual Intro to the Constitution web course:
On September 15, in observance and celebration of Constitution Day, Hillsdale College will hold our second annual Constitution Day Celebration, this year featuring Congressman Paul Ryan, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer, members of the Hillsdale College faculty, and other distinguished guests. Once you register for this event – it’s free – you’ll be able to watch all of these speeches and panels live from your home or office. Even if you are unable to watch on the day of the event, we will make all of the videos available to view in the weeks following.
Then, for the next five weeks after our Constitution Day Celebration, we invite you back to this site for a special lecture series we are calling the “Introduction to the Constitution.” Included in what we will discuss is:
What the framers of the Constitution understood about the document they were writing, especially its fundamental principles true of human beings at all times and in all places;
Why the fundamental features of the American Constitution are representation and separation of powers;
Why the key to a republican form of government is the vibrancy, size and independence of this private society.This program will serve as the basis for future educational programs on Constitution and related topics, including a more complete Online Constitution Class, of which this series will serve as a basis. We will be asking for your participation and feedback along the way to help us improve our efforts.
If you have not already, please take a few minutes to register for this program, the Constitution Day Celebration and the “Introduction to the Constitution” series. And please share this information with others – your friends, family, and colleagues who, like you, understand the vital need for restoring an understanding and love of the Constitution in our great nation.
We look forward to your partnership in this important work.
Best regards,
Dr. Larry Arnn
President, Hillsdale College
If you are interested, visit Rush For Hillsdale to sign up.
It’s free (yes, you will be asked for a donation), but I’d hurry. I signed up as soon as Rush mentioned it. While testing the link, I’ve found that the Hillsdale servers are overwhelmed.
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Permalink • Sunday - March 27, 2011
Patriotism? Yeah, I can do that!
Ohmigosh. The things we have to do for our country. My friend in Afghanistan sends the following:
WALK NAKED IN AMERICA DAY
Don’t forget to mark your calendars.
As you may already know, it is a sin for a Muslim male to see any woman other than his wife naked and if he does, he must commit suicide.
So next Saturday at 1 PM Eastern Time, all American women are asked to walk out of their house completely naked to help weed out any neighborhood terrorists.
Circling your block for one hour is recommended for this anti-terrorist effort.
All patriotic men are to position themselves in lawn chairs in front of their houses to demonstrate their support for the women and to prove that they are not Muslim terrorist sympathizers.
Since Islam also does not approve of alcohol, a cold 6-pack at your side is further proof of your patriotism.
The American government appreciates your efforts to root out terrorists and applauds your participation in this anti-terrorist activity.
God Bless America!!
P.S.
If you don’t send this to at least 1 person, you’re a terrorist-sympathizing, lily-livered coward and are possibly aiding and abetting terrorists.
Gentlemen. Next Saturday I have to work. I will therefore be able to observe who is on their porch with a six-pack and a naked wife. Furthermore, I will have my camera to document this explosion of patriotism. Thatisall. 
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Permalink • Thursday - February 17, 2011
Another Non-Merde Moment From France
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has joined the chorus. The other day, he said, “My answer is clearly yes, it is a failure.” The “it” was multiculturalism, and he was on French national television. In pronouncing multiculturalism defunct, the French president joins German Chancellor Angela Merkel, former Australian Prime Minister John Howard, Spain’s former Premier Jose Maria Aznar and, most recently, British Prime Minister David Cameron in heaving a failed policy into history’s dustbin.
“If you come to France, you accept to melt into a single community, which is the national community, and if you do not want to accept that, you cannot be welcome in France,” Mr. Sarkozy explained.
So how did the Europeans end up with multiculturalism, a multiculturalism that seems to favor Islam over other cultures? The Germans have outlawed Nazi culture. The Italians are not particularly hospitable to fascism, and as I have already pointed out, the French are appalled at cannibalism and do not even have a good word for McDonald’s or KFC. I think it started with the way they teach their history. Militarism, colonialism and racism are all prominent ingredients of European history, particularly British history. For that matter, American history also stresses these ingredients. I have been reading American college history texts, and they present an alarmingly ugly view of the Western past.
By presenting the West as repugnant and other civilizations as our prey, particularly during colonial days but also in modern times, we encourage such social pathologies as jihadism. Mr. Sarkozy says he is not going to tolerate the kind of fundamentalism in France that leads ultimately to jihadism. How is he going to achieve this without calling for a fundamental reform in how French history is taught?
There’s more to read if you want.
The very first comment is all, Hey, where’s Obama in this? How come he hasn’t figured it out yet?
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Permalink • Thursday - February 03, 2011
JUST SOMETHING ELSE TO BE ANGRY ABOUT. REALLY ANGRY!
I’m well aware not all Americans will feel this way.
I do not speak for BMEWS.
I can only speak for myself.
Can people, or maybe the question is, should people voice out loud what they are thinking? Especially when very angry.
I have this bad habit. My mouth follows my thoughts and there’s usually not a thing to be done about it.
I often scan the papers first for things that stand out, or maybe just annoy me. It isn’t that I want to be annoyed or angry. But the news is the news and I don’t make it up.
I generally see red and confess sometimes it may be unreasoning red.
When organizations of foreign birth operate in the USA, using Americans of course (Americans in name anyway) then I see more then red.
It’s an organization with roots right here in the UK and it’s amnesty intl., and they certainly are that. International. My hatred doesn’t know any boundaries where they and those like them are concerned. Look, I’m an old fart these days and there isn’t anything I can personally do about them. I run outta breath just tying my shoe laces. But I confess, I am entirely consumed by hatred most of you can not possibly imagine. Think the worst and you still won’t have it all.
Sometimes I think, what if someone were already old enough, ex military, and what if they were very ill. What if they were already facing the great void due to say, cancer. What might they have to lose by taking out heads of organizations like the aclu and amnasty? If their days are numbered anyway and there’s no hope of relief from pain. You’d have the perfect Killing Machine! Why not take a page from the good book of Mossad, and take out America’s enemies?
Target specific leadership types and somehow, someway, find the people who donate large sums to them, and taking them out too. Even if would be assassins were caught, what would they have to lose? It seems to me it would be win-win. If you’re dying anyway, what more could a court do? Your remaining few months in jail and probably on meds the whole time? Woo-hoo. The only regret I’d feel were it me, would be failure if caught before the good and necessary deeds were done.
Until America stops playing patty cake and holding hands with our enemies, we’re as doomed as I think the Brits are with their, we must under ALL circumstances be fair and liberal in outlook. That’s bullshit and it’s their undoing as it will be ours.
I have read how nice and comfy is the treatment of that faggot mo!#3rf$&*3r who passed secret docs to Wikileaks. Bad enough that the USA thinks it must make nice to foreigners and assure them that our prisoner is being well cared for. Like it’s their fuckin business to begin with. Well … these em-effers think it’s their business, and they would most assuredly be on my hit parade list if I had the training, the weapons and the know how. Oh btw, the hate I mentioned is not reserved for amnesty intl. alone. It extends to those with the same agenda.
Here. Take a look at what got me going. Perhaps those of you with cooler heads
and less excitable of manner, those who are not, like myself, closer to Sonny Corleone then Mother Teresa, maybe you have a more clear headed solution then I am capable of.
Bradley Manning is UK citizen and needs protection, government told
Amnesty International asks government to intervene on behalf of soldier suspected of having passed US secrets to WikiLeaksThe British government is under pressure to take up the case of Bradley Manning, the soldier being held in a maximum security military prison in Virginia on suspicion of having passed a massive trove of US state secrets to WikiLeaks, on the grounds that he is a UK citizen.
Amnesty International called on the government to intervene on Manning’s behalf and demand that the conditions of his detention, which the organisation calls “harsh and punitive”, are in line with international standards.
Amnesty’s UK director, Kate Allen, said: “His Welsh parentage means the UK government should demand his ‘maximum custody’ status does not impair his ability to defend himself, and we would also like to see Foreign Office officials visiting him just as they would any other British person detained overseas and potentially facing trial on very serious charges.”
Clive Stafford Smith, director of Reprieve, which provides legal assistance to those facing capital punishment and secret imprisonment, likened the conditions under which Manning is held to those in Guantánamo Bay.
“The government took a principled stance on Guantánamo cases even for British residents, let alone citizens, so you would expect it to take the same stance with Manning.”
Manning is a UK citizen by descent from his Welsh mother, Susan. Government databases on births, deaths and marriages show she was born Susan Fox in Haverfordwest in 1953.She married a then US serviceman, Brian Manning, stationed at a US base near the city, and they had a daughter, Casey, in the same year. Bradley was born in Oklahoma in 1987.
Born in the US, he is a US citizen. But under the British Nationality Act of 1981, anyone born outside the UK after 1 January 1983 who has a mother who is a UK citizen by birth is British by descent.
“Nationality is like an elastic band: it stretches to one generation born outside the UK to a British parent. And that makes Bradley Manning British,” said Alison Harvey, head of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association in London.
So far, however, Manning’s British status has not impinged itself upon the UK authorities. The British embassy in Washington said it had not received any requests to visit Manning in jail. “It hasn’t crossed our path yet,” an official said.
The issue of the soldier’s nationality has been bubbling furiously on Twitter in recent days and has been taken up by the UK branch of the Bradley Manning supporters network.
He has been held in the brig of Quantico marine base in Virginia since last July, having been arrested in Iraq, where he was stationed as a US army intelligence analyst two months previously.
He is alleged to have been the source of several WikiLeaks exposés of US state secrets, including the massive trove of cables released in November.
So now the shits are trying to claim the USA has no jurisdiction? Well screw them. But you must surely understand after reading this why I want them ALL,
Graveyard Dead! Every last one.
a note about my source. this article was originally in the Telegraph, but hunt as I tried, I could find no link and so had to use the Guardian.
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Permalink • Thursday - November 25, 2010
What am I thankful for?…
I’m thankful we still have citizens like this:
(Watch the crowd in the background. Their response brought tears to my eyes.)
The Constitution of the United States is under assault from without (NORK, China, and Islam) and from within (Obama regime and the Democrats).
I’m thankful for former Marines like Lewis. I’m thankful for the crowd that stood and placed hands over hearts. The Obamunistas shall not succeed. You will NOT force unConstitutional laws down our throats (and then send us to your death panels to deny us treatment for throat cancer)
We will NOT go quietly the way the formerly Great Britain has.
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Permalink • Tuesday - November 16, 2010
Right On
A 13-year-old Stanislaus County boy at the center of a flag controversy got a big show of support Monday as many people rallied to his side.
Cody Alicea was earlier told by Denair Middle School officials that he could not ride to school with a U.S. flag on his bike. The story has gained national attention, from Rush Limbaugh to the Drudge Report.
The school changed its mind, and now Alicea can display the stars and stripes.
When he rode from his home to school on Monday, he was followed by a parade of people on motorcycles. A military jet flyover was also expected.
“I’d just like to say thanks for the support,” Alicea said before his ride.
Officials at the school told Alicea not to display the flag, citing safety concerns. Some students had complained about the display.
Denair Unified School District Superintendent Edward Parraz said the campus recently experienced some racial tension. He said some students got out of hand on Cinco de Mayo. He said some students displayed the Mexican flag, while others displayed American flags.
Parraz said he got calls from halfway around the world about the flag controversy. Some soldiers in Afghanistan called to complain.
Alicea said he was surprised at the attention.
“This is big,” Alicea said. “I didn’t think it’d get this big.”
“Many” writes the author in this MSNBC piece. Try hundreds. A whole parade. And phone calls? Try thousands. Parraz ought to be mortified. Mortified right out of a job. Commie bastard.
More here
Is this a “disproportionate response”? Hell no. If every minor issue got this kind of public reaction, we wouldn’t have any major issues. Government - and that includes schools - needs to be slapped down firmly at each and every opportunity.
PS - hey teach, here’s a clue for free: there ain’t NO frickin’ Cinco de Mayo celebration north of the Rio Grande. Not in American schools. Capice? You want to have a Whoopee Do For Mexico Day, go down there and hold one. This is NOT Mexico.
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Permalink • Wednesday - October 13, 2010
Why We Win, Part 1
I don’t know why I’ve never done one of these WWW posts before. Probably because I get hung up on what to title them ...
How’s this for a morale raiser? Jessica Simpson entertained the sailors aboard the USS Harry Truman out in the Arabian Sea the other day, signing autographs, posing for snapshots, performing in the ships hanger bay, and eating with the crew. The crew had earlier run a singing contest, with the winners getting a chance to share a duet with her.
Morale was further raised when Ms. Simpson was given a chance to blast away on a pair of deck mounted .50 BMGs. Awesome. Best slow motion gun porn video never filmed. Even though the temperature was in the upper 90s, Jessica wore a helmet, ear muffs, an extra shirt, a heavy flack jacket, and big leather boots for protection. But I’m certain that under all that and her trademark Daisy Dukes was a very small bikini.
Aviation Boatswain’s Mate 3rd Class John Britt, USS Harry S. Truman Air department, V-2 division, emerged as the contest winner. Britt’s wife and child will be accompanying him to New York to watch his performance and share the experience.
“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I’m honored to be part of it,” said Britt. “I’m excited to be able to represent Truman, as well as the entire Navy. My family and shipmates are proud of me, and I couldn’t ask for anything better.”
Britt’s duet with Jessica will also be featured in her upcoming Christmas album.
“She knows the sacrifices the military men and women are making on behalf of their country, and she wants to do what she can in return,” said Joe Simpson, Jessica’s father and manager. “She’s proud to be able to sing with someone fighting for our freedom.”
Capt. Craig Clapperton, USS Harry S. Truman executive officer, said he was honored to have Jessica on board as a guest, and felt she boosted the crew’s morale with her heartfelt appreciation of their professionalism and service.
“I got to get my picture taken with her,” said Operations Specialist Seaman Jeroy Williams. “It was really amazing to meet a celebrity. She’s a lot prettier in real life, but she’s shorter than I thought she’d be. She was really nice to everybody, and I’m really glad I was able to meet her.”
During a performance in the ship’s hangar bay, Jessica thanked the hundreds of Sailors and Marines for their service and shared love of country and sang “God Bless America.”
“I’ve never meet anybody famous before,” said Operation Specialist Seaman Alison Wagner. “It’s really great that she took the time to come out here to visit us while we were deployed. It definitely lifted my spirits and made me feel a lot better being on deployment.”
During a tour of the ship, Jessica also participated in a 50 cal. gun shoot, served as a helmsman on the bridge, and spoke to the crew on the 1-MC. Although she enjoyed everything during her visit, her favorite part, she said, was meeting the crew members.
“I’ve been on many USO trips,” she said, “and I always enjoy sitting and talking with service members. To be on board Truman has been a blessing. I’ve met so many amazing people, and everybody has been so welcoming and made me feel like I’m at home. I can’t express enough how much I appreciate the sacrifices you make for our country.”
The full article is here, given an awful title in true Navy style: Simpson Embarks Truman. Oy vey.
But I would like to thank the US Navy and photographer Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Tyler Caswell for the photograph of her and Chief Gunner’s Mate Keith McGinley playing with guns, and their appreciation of true hi-res photography.
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Permalink • Thursday - September 09, 2010
Thanks Guy
A big thanks to Old Cat Man for finding this post. I don’t know how he did it, though using the search widget on the right sidebar and searching on “contest” will bring up the links. I’d forgotten all about it.
Keyboard Catharsis So here is a memory within a memory; here is the Skipper, Allan Kelly, and the 9/11 essay contest he and Vilmar ran back in 2004.
We try to keep everything here, but unfortunately some of the graphics have been lost.
The contest
Allan’s original essay
All the essays submitted with the winning essays .
I swear my head will explode If I hear one single word on TV Saturday about that stinking victory mosque the rat bastards want to build in New York. No mosque, no mas. No dhimmi, no jizya, no bowing down. No sharia anywhere. Enemies forever, no quarter asked or given. Invade their countries, kill their leaders, and force the population to convert to Christianity at the point of a sword. Then erase every trace of islam that ever was. Erase the written language of arabic. Destroy every single aspect of any culture that draws it’s justification from that evil book, and use that book for it’s proper purposes: lighting fires and wiping asses. All toilets will face Mecca, and no “squatters” will be installed anywhere in any white nation. This is not severe. This is not draconian. This is not keeping hate alive, which our enemies have done for over 800 - 1000 years now. This is only giving back what they have done for centuries to us when they can, and what they’ve announced for decades now that they intend to do again. The battlefields change, the methods change, the venues differ. But the fight continues, because it’s all they have.
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Permalink • Wednesday - September 01, 2010
Just say NO!!
Nothing Islamic or Muslim should even be in NYC! Especially an Obamosque. Why?
Was there anything ‘racist’ on 9/11?
NO! An alleged ‘religion’ declared war on the West. Islam is not a religion; it is a political party masquerading as a religion.
However, if they want to build an Obamosque in NYC, then I demand a Catholic cathedral and a Hebrew-Jewish Temple (and, btw, a Mormon Temple) in both Mecca and Medina. I also demand unrestricted access to both ‘cities’ by non-Muslims.
Just in the alleged interest of ‘outreach’ and ‘inclusion’.
Right?
Right!… 
Seriously, I just wanted to remind you, and especially those who may have been too young to remember, why we are at war against Islam (again…sigh…)
BTW, the video is best viewed full-screen. You get the full effect of the planes hitting, and the people jumping…
9-11 is coming up and we are actually arguing over a mosque being built?
Get real! Don’t argue… t’would make a nice target!
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Permalink • Sunday - August 22, 2010
Just a Common Soldier
My old high school buddy flapjawman sends me stuff constantly. I’m still about 100 emails behind. He sent this poem a couple of days ago, complete with apology:
(sorry, no reference, someone emailed it to me)
I’ve chewed him out several times for sending me stuff w/o references or links.
Here’s the poem as sent:
He was getting old and paunchy
And his hair was falling fast,
And he sat around the Legion,
Telling stories of the past.Of a war that he once fought in
And the deeds that he had done,
In his exploits with his buddies;
They were heroes, every one.And ‘tho sometimes to his neighbors
His tales became a joke,
All his buddies listened quietly
For they knew where of he spoke.But we’ll hear his tales no longer,
For ol’ Bob has passed away,
And the world’s a little poorer
For a Soldier died today.He won’t be mourned by many,
Just his children and his wife.
For he lived an ordinary,
Very quiet sort of life.He held a job and raised a family,
Going quietly on his way;
And the world won’t note his passing,
‘Tho a Soldier died today.When politicians leave this earth,
Their bodies lie in state,
While thousands note their passing,
And proclaim that they were great.Papers tell of their life stories
From the time that they were young
But the passing of a Soldier
Goes unnoticed, and unsung.Is the greatest contribution
To the welfare of our land,
Some jerk who breaks his promise
And cons his fellow man?Or the ordinary fellow
Who in times of war and strife,
Goes off to serve his country
And offers up his life?The politician’s stipend
And the style in which he lives,
Are often disproportionate,
To the service that he gives.While the ordinary Soldier,
Who offered up his all,
Is paid off with a medal
And perhaps a pension, small.It is not the politicians
With their compromise and ploys,
Who won for us the freedom
That our country now enjoys.Should you find yourself in danger,
With your enemies at hand,
Would you really want some cop-out,
With his ever waffling stand?Or would you want a Soldier--
His home, his country, his kin,
Just a common Soldier,
Who would fight until the end.He was just a common Soldier,
And his ranks are growing thin,
But his presence should remind us
We may need his like again.For when countries are in conflict,
We find the Soldier’s part
Is to clean up all the troubles
That the politicians start.If we cannot do him honor
While he’s here to hear the praise,
Then at least let’s give him homage
At the ending of his days.Perhaps just a simple headline
In the paper that might say:
“OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING,
A SOLDIER DIED TODAY.”
Now, I did find a source for this. I ‘binged’ the first verse. (I use Bing instead of Google these days.) Bing returned the following hit:
© 1985 A. Lawrence Vaincourt
A. Lawrence Vaincourt (WW II Air Force veteran) wrote this poem in 1985 for his newspaper column and it was reprinted in his 1991 book RHYMES AND REFLECTIONS (available from its publisher at http://www.dialogue.ca). For information regarding reprints or to contact Larry, please e-mail vaincourt@canada.com.
Veteran’s Day will be coming soon. This would be perfect for recitation at any Veteran’s Day event.
I’m also hoping that Mr. Vaincourt won’t be too upset. After all, I did some research and found the proper person to credit. This is apparently making the email rounds sans credit.
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Permalink • Saturday - July 24, 2010
The Warrior Song – updated!
Last year, just after the Ft. Hood Islamic Terrorist Attack, I posted the The Warrior Song.
There is a new version: The Warrior Song - Hard Corps
Semper Fi!
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Permalink • Friday - July 23, 2010
Homework
I can’t demand that any of my readers go and spend an hour reading this essay in American Spectator, but I certainly can recommend it. It’s a long read, and a somewhat academic one, and it puts into words written at a higher level the chalkboarding and emoting you catch on Glen Beck every day. But it really is worth it: if We The People are ever going to get our acts together and take back our nation, then this shared awareness is where we will have to start.
Ever since Oliver Wendell Holmes argued in 1920 (Missouri v. Holland) that presidents, Congresses, and judges could not be bound by the U.S. Constitution regarding matters that the people who wrote and ratified it could not have foreseen, it has become conventional wisdom among our ruling class that they may transcend the Constitution while pretending allegiance to it. They began by stretching such constitutional terms as “interstate commerce” and “due process,” then transmuting others, e.g., “search and seizure,” into “privacy.” Thus in 1973 the Supreme Court endowed its invention of “privacy” with a “penumbra” that it deemed “broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.” The court gave no other constitutional reasoning, period.
When the government declares, and its associated press echoes that “scientists say” this or that, ordinary people—or for that matter scientists who “don’t say,” or are not part of the ruling class—lose any right to see the information that went into what “scientists say.” Thus when Virginia’s attorney general subpoenaed the data by which Professor Michael Mann had concluded, while paid by the state of Virginia, that the earth’s temperatures are rising “like a hockey stick” from millennial stability—a conclusion on which billions of dollars’ worth of decisions were made—to investigate the possibility of fraud, the University of Virginia’s faculty senate condemned any inquiry into “scientific endeavor that has satisfied peer review standards” claiming that demands for data “send a chilling message to scientists...and indeed scholars in any discipline.” The Washington Post editorialized that the attorney general’s demands for data amounted to “an assault on reason.”
By identifying science and reason with themselves, our rulers delegitimize opposition. Though they cannot prevent Americans from worshiping God, they can make it as socially disabling as smoking—to be done furtively and with a bad social conscience. Though they cannot make Americans wish they were Europeans, they continue to press upon this nation of refugees from the rest of the world the notion that Americans ought to live by “world standards.”
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The country class actually believes that America’s ways are superior to the rest of the world’s, and regards most of mankind as less free, less prosperous, and less virtuous. Thus while it delights in croissants and thinks Toyota’s factory methods are worth imitating, it dislikes the idea of adhering to “world standards.” This class also takes part in the U.S. armed forces body and soul: nearly all the enlisted, non-commissioned officers and officers under flag rank belong to this class in every measurable way. Few vote for the Democratic Party.
But the Republican Party does not live to represent the country class. For it to do so, it would have to become principles-based, as it has not been since the mid-1860s. The few who tried to make it so the party treated as rebels: Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. The party helped defeat Goldwater. When it failed to stop Reagan, it saddled his and subsequent Republican administrations with establishmentarians who, under the Bush family, repudiated Reagan’s principles as much as they could. Barack Obama exaggerated in charging that Republicans had driven the country “into the ditch” all alone. But they had a hand in it.
Because aggressive, intolerant secularism is the moral and intellectual basis of the ruling class’s claim to rule, resistance to that rule, whether to the immorality of economic subsidies and privileges, or to the violation of the principle of equal treatment under equal law, or to its seizure of children’s education, must deal with secularism’s intellectual and moral core. This lies beyond the boundaries of politics as the term is commonly understood.
Yes, that’s a lot of quotations, far more than I usually make. I did that so that you would see the very broad range of topics covered by this essay. It shows how just about everything has gone wrong, and why ... and the answer is Progressivism. We have 3 generations worth of corruption to undo, and that’s going to require far more than just a couple wins at the polls in 2010 and 2012.
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Get a load of Chris Muir’s Day By Day strip for today.
It’s not a bad idea, this hobby that Sam has of writing out longhand the fundamental documents we have based our nation on. Not only does that make you read them, and read them fully, but by writing them down yourself a few times their meaning becomes both clear and ingrained. And recall that this particular document was both rationalization and justification for an armed revolution.
I do not suggest trying to make your own longhand copy of the health care bill. That would probably take you the better part of a year.
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