Monday, November 30, 2009
"See??? See!!?!?!?!!!"
"I’m better ‘n that other JOKE"
srsly.
OR *clicky*clicky*
I’m better!
Much better! rly! see?
Zombie Stalin
attack of the zombie memes
Transnational progressivism:
...it was the Soviet Union… [who] made dezinformatsiya (disinformation) a central weapon of their war against ... the U.S. They conducted memetic subversion against the U.S. on many levels at a scale that is only now becoming clear as historians burrow through their archives and ex-KGB officers sell their memoirs.
[eg:]
-- There is no truth, only competing agendas.-- All Western (and especially American) claims to moral superiority over Communism/Fascism/Islam are vitiated by the West’s history of racism and colonialism. ...
-- The prosperity of the West is built on ruthless exploitation of the Third World; therefore Westerners actually deserve to be impoverished and miserable. [the Baran-Wallerstein “world system” thesis] ...
-- For a virtuous person, violence and war are never justified. It is always better to be a victim than to fight, or even to defend oneself. But ‘oppressed’ people are allowed to use violence anyway; they are merely reflecting the evil of their oppressors.
[Frantz Fanon]...Koch shows us that the worst-case scenario was, as it turns out now, the correct one; these ideas, like the “race bomb” rumor, really were instruments deliberately designed to destroy the American way of life. Another index of their success is that most members of the bicoastal elite can no longer speak of “the American way of life” without deprecation, irony, or an automatic and half-conscious genuflection towards the altar of political correctness. In this and other ways, the corrosive effects of Stalin’s meme war have come to utterly pervade our culture.
...
Another consequence of Stalin’s meme war is that today’s left-wing antiwar demonstrators wear kaffiyehs without any sense of how grotesque it is for ostensible Marxists to cuddle up to religious absolutists who want to restore the power relations of the 7th century CE. In Stalin’s hands, even Marxism itself was hollowed out to serve as a memetic weapon — it became increasingly nihilist, hatred-focused and destructive. The postmodern left is now defined not by what it’s for but by what it’s against: classical-liberal individualism, free markets, dead white males, America, and the idea of objective reality itself.
I encourage you to RTWT not only for satisfying historical and current insights but for tasty bits of snarkaliciousness like this:
Liberating, too, it is to realize that the Noam Chomskys and Michael Moores and Robert Fisks of the world ... are not brave transgressive forward-thinkers but pathetic memebots running the program of a dead tyrant.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
WTF?!?
Did Teh iWon sign on to the EU when I wasn’t lookin?
A German government official says the nation will send an observer to the upcoming trial in New York of the professed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks and four accused henchmen.
“Henchmen” ? srsly?
Justice Ministry spokeswoman Katharina Jahntz on Saturday confirmed a report in Der Spiegel that a German observer would attend the trial to ensure that no evidence provided by Germany would be used to apply the death penalty.
“Observers” do not “ensure” anything. [Even German ones.] Your suggestion is impertinent, your standing is irrelevant and your team presumptuous.
But wait—there’s more: from the German press.
A team of observers from the German government is going to New York to oversee the trial ... Berlin wants to ensure that promises made by the US are kept if the suspects are found guilty.
IF?!? They’ve confessed. Publicly. What if?
Germany, which does not have a death penalty, provided evidence for the trial on the condition that it could not be used to support a death sentence. Several members of the al Qaeda cell that planned and executed the attacks of September 11 were previously based in the northern German city of Hamburg.
Your “standing” is that they once lived in your country? That, therefore makes them Germans? Ya sure ya wanna go there?
“US attacked in an act of war by German citizens”
That’s a tough headline. “Germany more interested in lives of KSM/henchmen than 2,819 killed in 9/11” Not a good PR move, Hunni.
"In this case we will observe very closely that the given assurances are kept,” Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said.
“Assurances”? Made by whom and under what authority? When?
However it was unclear exactly how evidence from Germany would be distinguished from evidence procured from elsewhere.
The defense lawyer for one of the accused, Ramzi Binalshibh, said that a conviction of his client would “scarcely be possible without evidence from Germany."
Way to stand up for Western Civilization, Dhimmi Kinder.
JonB
Friday, November 20, 2009
Hear that scraping sound?
no… shh. listen
Hear it now? That’s the sound of millions of Obama bumperstickers being scraped off.
I got this email from one of my more rational wombat pals today:
Gubbmint and How Gubbmint Works
Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, “Someone may steal from it at night.” So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.
Then Congress said, “How does the watchman do his job without
instruction?” So they created a planning department and hired two
people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do
time studies.
Then Congress said, “How will we know the night watchman is doing the
tasks correctly?” So they created a Quality Control department and
hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports..
Then Congress said, “How are these people going to get paid?” So They
created the following positions, a time keeper, and a payroll officer,
Then hired two people.
Then Congress said, “Who will be accountable for all of these people?”
So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an
Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal
Secretary.
Then Congress said, “We have had this command in operation for one
Year and we are $18,000 over budget, we must cutback overall cost.”
So they laid off the night watchman.
Does anybody remember the reason given for the establishment of
the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.... during the Carter Administration?
NOW slowly, let it sink in.
Quietly, we go like sheep to slaughter.
Anybody?
Anything?
No?
Didn’t think so!
Bottom line. We’ve spent several hundred billion dollars in support of
an agency...the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember!
Ready??
It was very simple...and at the time, everybody thought it very appropriate.
The Department of Energy was instituted on 8-04-1977.
TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.Hey, pretty efficient, huh???
AND NOW IT’S 2009—32 YEARS LATER—AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS “NECESSARY” DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR. THEY HAVE 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES; AND LOOK AT THE JOB THEY HAVE DONE! THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY, “WHAT WAS I THINKING?”
Ah, yes—good ole bureaucracy.
AND, NOW, WE ARE GOING TO TURN THE BANKING SYSTEM, HEALTH CARE, AND THE AUTO INDUSTRY OVER TO THE SAME GOVERNMENT?
HELLOOO! Anybody Home?
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
First Seize the Language...
and another term for this...?
On his maiden Asia swing, Obama has made a vivid display of his own trademark style — the diplomacy of deference.
...
White House aides say the approach is deliberate — part of Obama’s determination to deliver on his campaign promise of directly engaging friends and enemies alike, giving America a less belligerent posture abroad.
“I think it’s very important for the United States not to assume that what is good for us is automatically good for somebody else,” Obama told the students at the town hall, in Shanghai. “And we have to have some modesty about our attitudes towards other countries.”
Yeah. Human Dignity and Freedom of the Individual—just another choice among equals…
The approach also invests deep faith in the power of Obama’s personal presence—a belief that a calm and reasonable style will summon calm and reasonable responses around the world.
“He believes in vigorous engagement around the world — in strong alliances, in confronting our adversaries and standing up for human rights by making these points in a very public way,” Axelrod said. “He is confident. He’s someone who’s leading from strength and a deep belief in who America is and what we stand for. That confidence is reflected in the way he conducts himself on the world stage.”
He really thinks we’re all on drugs, doesn’t he?
A senior administration official called the bow to Emperor Akihito a “sign of respect,” adding that the depth of the bow reflected “the level of respect.”
“This is part of what the president says all the time — that he wants to be mindful of other cultures,” the official said. “That doesn’t take anything away from our culture.”
mindful...
Axelrod said skepticism about Obama’s approach is a reflection of the nation’s “A.D.D. political culture, in which every day is Election Day and people want all results immediately.
Keep molesting that chicken, David. We buy it—Mmm… mmm ...mmm.
Pre-judged?
"Ladies & Gentlemen of the jury ..."
...Obama said those offended by the legal privileges given to Mohammed by virtue of getting a civilian trial rather than a military tribunal won’t find it “offensive at all when he’s convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him."
Hu Go, Bama!
Obama quickly added that he did not mean to suggest he was prejudging the outcome of Mohammed’s trial. “I’m not going to be in that courtroom,” he said. “That’s the job of the prosecutors, the judge and the jury."
...uh .... er… uh....
[Holder says] “I have every confidence the nation and the world will see him for the coward he is,” ... “I’m not scared of what (Mohammed) will have to say at trial — and no one else needs to be either.”
Holder says the public and the nation’s intelligence secrets can be protected during a public trial in civilian court.
“We need not cower in the face of this enemy,” Holder says. “Our institutions are strong, our infrastructure is sturdy, our resolve is firm, and our people are ready."
For?
Srsly. Is taunting what’s really best for the people of Manhattan? Izzat that there noo Smart Diplomacy™ we back-woods redneck ideologically-stuck moe-rahns are too un-subtle to comp-re-hend, hm?
"I think this notion that we have to be fearful that these terrorists possess some special powers that prevent us from presenting evidence against them, locking them up and exacting swift justice, I think that has been a fundamental mistake,” Obama said...
"special powers" WTF’nFF R U on about?!?!?
"We are at war, and we will use every instrument of national power — civilian, military, law enforcement, intelligence, diplomatic and others — to win,” Holder says.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Good Stuffs
know the origins of thy enemy
Barbara Curtis is blogging Rules for Radicals
More to come…
Saul Alinsky was the founding father of community organizing. And Obama’s team of Alinskyite cronies are doing what they’ve been doing for years — only now they are community organizing at a national level. This involves “empowering” the poor by crushing the middle class (though as we will see, Obama-style empowerment is an illusion). It involves obliterating traditions and symbols with which patriotic Americans identify (see Obama and iconography). It involves fomenting fear, uncertainty, and racial division. It means — because in an Alinsky world, the end justifies the means — that moral constraints like truth and honesty are off the table.
Grab a cuppa joe and go cringe read.
A Note From The Trenches
three letters...
Emerson Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer David Farr ...“Washington is doing everything in their manpower, capability, to destroy U.S. manufacturing,” Farr said [11/11/09] in Chicago at a Baird Industrial Outlook conference. “Cap and trade, medical reform, labor rules.” ...
Emerson… will keep expanding in emerging markets, which represented 32 percent of revenue in 2009. About 36 percent of manufacturing is now in “best-cost countries” up from 21 percent in 2003, according to slides accompanying his speech.
Companies will create jobs in India and China, “places where people want the products and where the governments welcome you to actually do something,” Farr said.
...“What do you think I am going to do?” Farr asked. “I’m not going to hire anybody in the United States. I’m moving. They are doing everything possible to destroy jobs.”
But WTH Can *I* DO?!?
plenty, Pilgrim
I enJOY the hell outta Vanderleun and recommend him to you, in both formats.
In case ya missed it, he has a response to the age-old question, “The invaders are taking over and we are just chewing the fat?” Read the entire list here, or fail to at your own peril. I’ll include a coupla appetite-whetters here:
-- Develop a tough and resilient attitude.
--Stay far away from places where most people are government serfs.
-- Learn to track and hunt and fish.
-- Make friends and look for common ground with everyone who loves freedom.
Here’s one we can work on right here on the Porch: “Figure out at least one conversational “hook” that can help a misguided Obama believer at least start to see a tiny bit of light.”
I got plans for a dinner party to explore with my pals arming ourselves for those inevitable Holiday Party Political Conversations. So much better to think out one’s strategy ahead of time than to land on the fall back tactic of screaming “Are you out of your freaking mind?!?!?” at Grandma.
"Hidden" Agenda
if ya can’t hide it, paint it red
Andrew C. McCarthy, former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, led the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a series of planned attacks on NYC landmarks and citizens.
I believe the explanation lies in the Obama administration’s fondness for transnationalism, a doctrine of post-sovereign globalism in which America is seen as owing its principal allegiance to the international legal order rather than to our own Constitution and national interests.
[1977 Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions] potentially converts traditional combat operations into war crimes [by extending] protections to terrorists and imposes an exacting legal regime on combat operations, relying on such concepts as “proportional” use of force and rigorous distinction between military and civilian targets.
The U. S. did not agree to Protocol I, but the concept of “customary international law holds that once new legal principles gain broad acceptance among nations and international organizations, they somehow transmogrify into binding law, even for nations that haven’t agreed to them.” Nevermind your little “Constitution” or democracy or whatever you call it.
Today’s announcement that KSM and other top al-Qaeda terrorists will be transferred to Manhattan federal court for civilian trials neatly fits this hidden agenda. Nothing results in more disclosures of government intelligence than civilian trials. They are a banquet of information, not just at the discovery stage but in the trial process itself, where witnesses — intelligence sources — must expose themselves and their secrets.
...
We are now going to have a trial that never had to happen for defendants who have no defense. And when defendants have no defense for their own actions, there is only one thing for their lawyers to do: put the government on trial in hopes of getting the jury (and the media) spun up over government errors, abuses and incompetence. That is what is going to happen in the trial of KSM et al. It will be a soapbox for al-Qaeda’s case against America. Since that will be their “defense,” the defendants will demand every bit of information they can get about interrogations, renditions, secret prisons, undercover operations targeting Muslims and mosques, etc., and — depending on what judge catches the case — they are likely to be given a lot of it. The administration will be able to claim that the judge, not the administration, is responsible for the exposure of our defense secrets. And the circus will be played out for all to see — in the middle of the war. It will provide endless fodder for the transnational Left to press its case that actions taken in America’s defense are violations of international law that must be addressed by foreign courts. And the intelligence bounty will make our enemies more efficient at killing us.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Buckets of the Stuff
woo hoooo!
...water for certain near the north pole of the Moon ... hints in the plume of other, more exotic molecules, ranging from organic hydrocarbons to mercury
...Because the Moon has nearly no tilt to the Sun, some of its craters, including parts of Cabeus, remain in permanent shadows that get as cold as Pluto. The cold and lack of light turn them into vaults for all that falls within their rims. “These cold traps — they’ve swept through the inner solar system over the past couple billion years and have accumulated everything that has migrated to them.” ...the ‘attics’ of the Solar System
I dunno what-all this will entail, but it pleasures me rather a bit in bleak, crappy times like these.
Wonder What They'll Use...
skeletons a’rattlin
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who led an effort last week to prevent the Obama Administration from doing just what it did today in directing prosecution of the alleged Sept. 11 plotters into federal court, says he’s keeping mum about that decision for now at the request of the White House.
“I have been asked by the White House to withhold comment about today’s Guantanamo decision until I can meet face-to-face with the President after he returns from Asia,” Graham said in a statement released by his office. “As our Commander in Chief, I will honor his request. I look forward to discussing this issue further.”
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Now Wait -- I Think We Could Run With This...
Jailed!
Yep—Nanny Peeloser thinks Americans ought to be jailed for not “doing your part.”
Stone: Do you think it’s fair to send people to jail who don’t buy health insurance?
Peeloser: yadda yadda yadda... This is to say we all have to do our part and that is the point of this bill…
Stone: Madam Speaker, I’m just trying to understand. If you don’t buy health insurance you go to jail?
Peeloser: I think the legislation is very fair in this respect. yadda yadda... ...someone goes to the hospital and sends you the bill—is that fair? yadda yadda...
So. Her point is “no free-loaders,” right. Toss those freeloaders in jail, right?
And if we toss the “health care” freeloaders in jail, we can also jail those who are able-bodied yet take welfare [multi-generationally], right? And those who aren’t currently paying federal income tax [48%] will now have to contribute to the interstates, defense, NEA, NPR, Congress’ pensions, Nancy’s AF3/GS5 flights, and all the rest of the ridiculosity?
Srsly—I think we can work with this thing.
OR *clicky*clicky*
Dithering & Dawdling
No cake for YOU!
The shape of a possible surge will now not be decided for another few weeks - after Thanksgiving, we are told. Foreign leaders had expected news of American plans after the widely trailed war council in Washington on Wednesday.
...The danger is that this drift erodes allied confidence and strengthens the hand of those who want America and Britain defeated in Afghanistan. Enemies such as the Taliban are able to smell weakness, and so are America’s allies.
...As Obama continues to ponder what next, it may well be that he is so worried about being the next LBJ that he forgets the record of another Democrat president. One who could not grasp why being seen as weak abroad leads to so many problems. Who didn’t understand how to respond to aggression and made poor diplomatic decisions. Perhaps it’s not Johnson he should be worried about being compared to, but Jimmy Carter.
[Teh iWon at Arlington]
Our Vietnam veterans served with great honor, and they often came home greeted not with gratitude or support but with condemnation and neglect. That’s something that will never happen again. ...Our servicemen and -women have been doing right by America for generations. And as long as I am commander in chief, America is going to do right by them.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
ToDaZeD Not Reported
maybe gloogle and yahou just aren’t awake yet
Odd that I had such trouble finding this online after hearing about it on the raadio…
Sixty percent (60%) of likely voters nationwide say last week’s shootings at Fort Hood should be investigated by military authorities as a terrorist act. ...
(65%) of all voters say Major Nidal Malik Hasan should receive the death penalty if convicted
27% want the incident investigated by civilian authorities as a criminal act. ...
13% are
not suremorons ...47% of voters following it Very Closely and another 36% following it Somewhat Closely
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