Sunday - June 26, 2011

Sunday Bits

Not much from me today; I’ve got work and plenty of things to do around the home. Tomorrow won’t be much better; we’re going to visit the SIL as she recuperates from her surgery. That will be a long quiet day, but there is the promise of large quantities of decent take-out Thai food.

Are you sleeping too well at night? Get your copy of Subversion, Inc. and you may never sleep again. It’s all about ACORN and Alinksy and other nefarious community organizers and assorted commies who have not really gone underground at all and continue to rig elections and work against the things that America is all about. I think that’s all covered by the umbrella concept of “fundamental change”.

America is under siege as radicals determined to pulverize the U.S. Constitution deliberately bankrupt the nation, destroy the electoral system, and drive the economy into the ground.

How do you destroy a great nation? Sap its citizens’ self-respect and encourage civil unrest. It’s no coincidence that the welfare rolls are exploding everywhere and there’s no end in sight. An appalling 1 in 7 Americans now receives food stamps and there are 70 bloated federal welfare programs. The failed War on Poverty that started in President Lyndon Johnson’s time has cost taxpayers a staggering $16 trillion - and President Obama, who killed the welfare reforms of the 1990s, wants to spend $10 trillion more! To help distribute the wealth even more, radicals handcuffed banks and forced them to give mortgages to people on welfare who had no chance of paying it back. This isn’t so-called social justice: it’s slow-motion national suicide.

How did a country with a respect for economic freedoms unparalleled in all of history ever get to this point? Marxist professors and agitators Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven spent their lives trying to destroy “the system” -American capitalism and democracy-- in order to drag the country kicking and screaming into a socialist nightmare. They thought that if Americans could be strong-armed into going on welfare in large numbers radical change would surely follow. Liberals worked hand-in-hand with Communists and other extremists to undermine the American system by giving activists taxpayer money to bring it down.

Come again? Even now most Americans don’t realize that their taxes subsidize radical activist armies like those created by the late “professional radical” Saul Alinsky. These revolutionary organizations flourished and became a permanent force to be reckoned with on the nation’s political landscape. They’re still on the scene today.

Another epic read for your VRWC bookshelf, $14.25 at Amazon.




The Wall Street Journal has an article in favor of fracking those deep deep gas shales, and debunks several of the fear memes the antis are putting out.

The Bakken formation, along the Montana-North Dakota border, is thought to hold four billion barrels of oil (the biggest proven estimate outside Alaska), and the drilling boom helps explain North Dakota’s unemployment rate of 3.2%, the nation’s lowest.

All of this growth has inevitably attracted critics, notably environmentalists and their allies. They’ve launched a media and political assault on hydraulic fracturing, and their claims are raising public anxiety. So it’s a useful moment to separate truth from fiction in the main allegations against the shale revolution.

• Fracking contaminates drinking water. One claim is that fracking creates cracks in rock formations that allow chemicals to leach into sources of fresh water. The problem with this argument is that the average shale formation is thousands of feet underground, while the average drinking well or aquifer is a few hundred feet deep. Separating the two is solid rock. This geological reality explains why EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, a determined enemy of fossil fuels, recently told Congress that there have been no “proven cases where the fracking process itself has affected water.”

Lisa Jackson is not terribly competent IMO, but she is a major tree hugger. Maybe she hasn’t got the latest talking points list from Alan Colmes and the Sierra Club yet. But the WSJ post is helpful if you need to defend this new way to get at a nearly infinite amount of energy right under our own feet.




Subverting Nature - another 10 minute read from the WSJ. And another book review, but why you’d need more data than this article has is beyond me. Inexpensive sonograms come to the Turd World and the result is that the abortion rate shoots way up for women carrying female fetuses. This has been going on for quite some time now. What happens when you raise a population that has tens of millions of excess males who stand no chance at all of getting a wife? Bad things like crime and wars. And slavery and forced prostitution. The downstream effects aren’t covered that much in this essay, but they’re easy to think about. China probably has 50 million young men they have no use for right now, and they’re building up their army and navy at an amazing rate. Heck, they could arm these guys with chopsticks and it would be a force big enough to take over half the world. That is, until they met up with the 30 million excess guys from India armed with spoons.




While Peiper tries to get his back to behave, here’s a nice bit of fluff from the UK. The event was serious, and the writer gives it all due respect, but the photographer must have been on loan from the fashion department.

Kate in command: Duchess of Cambridge does dress uniform as she carries out first military role as a royal
The Duchess of Cambridge took on her first military role as a royal today as she handed out operational medals to members of the Irish Guards. Alongside the Duke of Cambridge, who is Colonel of the Irish Guards, Kate presented medals to soldiers who have recently returned from serving in Afghanistan. A royal aide said the Duchess was very pleased to be undertaking the role for a regiment ‘so close to her husband’s heart’.

The 1st Battalion Irish Guards returned in April from a six-month tour in Afghanistan where they were deployed to 22 different locations in Helmand Province, tasked with developing the Afghan Army. Six soldiers returned home two weeks before the royal couple’s wedding day and had ceremonial duties to perform in London on the day.

The Duke of Cambridge spoke of his ‘pride and humility’ today as he presented the medals.

She didn’t actually wear a uniform, she just chose an outfit that was perfectly coordinated to the dress uniforms around her. And the newly married couple did look super spiffy. Good for them for looking elegant and razor sharp while doing their duty.

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