In This Time Of "Hope And Change", There's So Little For Us To Hope We'll Ever Change In Time

Singers aren’t supposed to have dairy before a show, but we all know I’m a rule breaker.

--Justin Bieber - convincing himself he's on the cutting edge because he eats pizza - in Spiked Magazine.

Victor Davis Hanson has a nice screed, about all of those who "rage against reality", while those of us who were raging for a reality-based outlook have been called "crazy".

It is a insane fact, of these insane times, that anyone who points out insanity will be labeled insane themselves.

Matt Drudge links to a "Top Psychic" (what are the qualifications for that designation?) making us wonder - in the year 2011 - what the difference is between those who believe in such NewAge mystical powers and the Haitians killing one another because they're convinced sorcerers are spreading cholera?

Does Matt Drudge also "rage against reality"?

We pointed you to Oleg Atbashian's "What to Ask Progressives" already. But did we mention that's only it's subtitle? It's real title is "Question Insanity".

If you hold such views, could you be said to "rage against reality"?

And how are you different from those Americans The Wall Street Journal covered who rely on "Hoodoo"?

Can't it be said they, too, "rage against reality"?

Spiked Magazine calls this "Our Brave New World of Malthusian Madmen" but no one enamored with Malthusian ideas will willingly call themselves "mad", just as we can't get Tom Cruise or John Travolta to admit they're in "a dangerous cult".

And, even worse, in all these cases there is hardly anyone willing to talk sense into any else's head - to make them "not crazy".

It's not even considered a goal.

Because, if you try to do that, you, too, will be labeled "crazy".

Sheesh. And we wonder how the Nazis ever got around to killing the Jews,...

And, Today, The Left Is It's Nursemaid,...

"The whole foreign policy of the Soviet-bloc states, indeed its whole economic and military might, revolved around the larger Soviet objective of destroying America from within through the use of lies. The Soviets saw disinformation as a vital tool in the dialectical advance of world Communism. … Many ‘Ban-the-Bomb’ and anti-nuclear movements were KGB-funded operations, too. I can no longer look at a petition for world peace or other supposedly noble cause, particularly of the anti-American variety, without thinking to myself, ‘KGB.’

As far as I’m concerned, the KGB gave birth to the antiwar movement in America."

-- Ion Mihai Pacepa, acting chief of Romania’s espionage service - on the "useful idiots" we hear from every day - in a great article by Oleg Atbashian (AKA "Uncle Oleg") for Pajamas Media.

A Whole Bunch Of Stuff About Stuff

O.K., not a lot of time today, because I've got some new things to get into - and, no, it's nothing to do with conspiracy theories or aliens - but here's some thoughts to hold you over until I get back:

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, is calling the Obama/Joker posters, "politically mean spirited and dangerous". But, as Matt Drudge points out, he was nowhere to be found when Vanity Fair did it to President Bush.

Personally, I'm getting a kick out of all the liberal whining, now that the right has decided, after eight years of over-the-top behavior from the opposition - without hardly a word of caution from the media - conservatives can scream, "It's payback time!" as well.

And, really, it's not just payback, but (as Oleg Atbashian points out) the realization that the left in this country (including the media) are just communist and socialist operators with no capacity for independent thought, because the man dubbed our first Hip-Hop President "was cheered on by a generation who grew up believing that deformity is beauty and ideological lunacy is the norm."

Throw the Left's love for NewAge nonsense in the mix - and the fact they won't respond to reason or, if they do, that it's with screams, dirty tricks, threats and/or violence - and it's the same picture I noticed we were warned about, by Yuri Bezenov (another person from behind the Iron Curtain) a long time ago:



So, if you don't like "The Church of What's Happening Now", kids, don't blame us:

Blame the K.G.B. - or yourselves - or, maybe, Jane Fonda.

"I do not subscribe to the respondent’s new faith nor approve of it. I find it fundamentalist and bordering on the absurd.”

Those are the words of a man who is accusing his NewAge ex-wife of abusing their child with her crazy "spiritual" ideas. The ex-wife's own mother is backing the father, aghast at a whole slew of "cult rituals” that even the child says include:

Everything that has a picture of "skulls, ghosts, magic, mythical creatures, superhero e.g. Spiderman and pictures of celebrities are burnt in a fire".

“People who are ‘Possessed’ are by choice prayed for and most of them make scary noises and this happens during all night Friday night and when an exorcism happens I am allowed to go to sleep.”

Excessive prayer, vegetarian food and (of course, the all-time most useless "cure" ever invented:) homeopathic medicine.

"In court papers, her mother claimed her daughter had been 'brainwashed' after becoming a member of a 'cult', and was forcing her grandsons to be a part of it.

She said she had witnessed an exorcism at the house and was worried that she 'will soon be burying her grandchildren."

The ex-wife said said she was "essentially a Bible-believing Christian” and her ex-husband did not like her Christianity and “had to concoct something to make it sound crazy ... He couldn’t base it on me just being a Christian”.

The boy’s mother also said she believed in 'healthy eating' and moderation. 'I don’t want my children to be slothful,' she told the court.

But we've been there before, haven't we?

Anybody know of any other "Christians" like this? If so, I'd alert whatever governing body their church is a part of, because it's fairly obvious it's been infiltrated by NewAge.

And, people, that just ain't good.