I've already written lengthy pieces about all of this - countless times - and I was going to write one about it again, but then, someone beat me to it AND summed it all up, too nicely:
"Absolutely nothing about Gwyneth Paltrow is punk rock"
This is footage by Ann Althouse and New Media Meade, of Wisconsin Democrats at a Tea Party rally, determined that no one will be heard but them. They are drowning out the speech of a 14-year old girl with booing, cowbells and drums. I wonder if even one of them has read Liberal Fascism?
I also wonder how long they think the country's going to put up with their obnoxiousness,...
Charles Schumer (D-NY) is a wiener, and has always been a wiener, but now that the Tea Party's coming up, he's also becoming a whiner:
I rise today to speak about the current debate over the federal budget. Yesterday, we had a very telling—and troubling—vote in the House of Representatives.
On the three-week continuing resolution needed to avoid a government shutdown on March 18, Speaker Boehner was forced to rely on votes from House Democrats in order to pass a measure he himself negotiated.
The reason was, conservative Republicans abandoned their party leadership in droves out of anger that the measure lacked special-interest add-ons dealing with ideological issues like abortion, net neutrality and global warming.
In all, 54 conservative Republicans rejected the measure—even though it was necessary to avert a shutdown, and even though it included $6 billion in cuts to domestic discretionary spending. This is a bad omen. This was not supposed to happen.
Yes it is, Chuck. That's what we sent Weepy there for - not to compromise with you, but to run over you - that's what "taking back our government" means. And he's proud to be our leader - haven't you seen him cry?
The Speaker has said all along that he wants to avoid a shutdown at all costs, and I believe him. He is a good man. The problem is, a large percentage of those in his party don’t feel the same way.
They think “compromise” is a dirty word. They think taking any steps to avert a shutdown would mean being the first to blink.
That's right. Remember when we were saying your party was engaging in Liberal Fascism and you laughed at us? That didn't make you stop, or even consider compromise - you pressed on. Well, now you get to see what that feels like. Does it hurt?
It’s clear that there is no path to compromise that goes through the Tea Party. We urge Speaker Boehner to push ahead without them. We are ready to work with him if he is willing to buck the extreme element of his party.
Throughout this debate, Democrats have repeatedly shown a willingness to negotiate, a willingness to meet Republicans in the middle.
And yet the rank-and-file of the House GOP has been utterly unrelenting. They've wrapped their arms around the discredited, reckless approach advanced by H.R. 1, and they won't let go.
Gee, Chuck, that reminds me of a speech I heard a few years ago - or was it a promise? Something to do with pitbulls - and lipstick,...
In order to avoid a dead end on these budget talks, [Boehner] should abandon the Tea Party and work to find a bipartisan consensus. It’s the only way out of this bind.
It's funny, how the timeliness of a subject can erupt in several places at once, making it seem like one of the prevailing issues of the moment.
For the last couple of days I've been discussing the sacrifices I've had to make, and some of the problems I've encountered, since revealing myself as a conservative artist. To the question of what would happen if a female conservative artist "came out" I wrote:
I think her experience would be much like mine:
She'd find herself standing alone, with a bunch of snarling Leftists - who know who she is - doing everything in their power to tear her down in any way possible.
You don’t have to be an art critic to see something tasteless going on at Pratt Institute. Since 1887, this venerable New York institution has been dedicated to educating “artists and creative professionals to be responsible contributors to society.” Yet teachers and administrators at Pratt have been nothing but irresponsible in their recent dealings with a fifth-year drawing student named Steve DeQuattro.
Mr. DeQuattro is a political artist. He uses his background in graphic design to illustrate the dominant political culture of his world. At Pratt, this means creating work that addresses, as he wrote to me, the “growing bureaucracy, higher tuition, new buildings for administration, new offices, and departments, and left-wing bias, all at the expense of the students.”
As part of his recent work, Mr. DeQuattro has designed a cereal-box-like sculpture that he calls, ironically, “Sustainable Liberalism in a Box” (the graphics are pictured above). He has developed a piece that takes the ubiquitous Apple iPod ad campaign to address abortion. He has designed a sobering five-foot-wide mural that tracks the Democratic Party’s record on race, from Jefferson’s slave-holding days up through the racially charged speeches of Senator Robert Byrd and Vice President Joe Biden.
As a senior in the school, Mr. DeQuattro has been working on this art in preparation for a group show for Pratt’s graduating students, which is scheduled to open on April 23. While his faculty advisor has been supporting him, his peers have not. Mr. DeQuattro says they recently wrote a letter to his professors, calling his work “offensive” and complaining about exhibiting alongside him. Last week, the chair of the fine arts department stepped in to prevent Mr. DeQuattro’s participation alongside the other students in the group show--an unprecedented move in the history of the department, says Mr. DeQuattro, despite the fact that none of his work is pornographic, libelous, or in violation of the laws of free speech. Mr. DeQuattro's advisor did not return a request for comment.
For the administrators and students at Pratt, the problem isn’t political art itself, says Mr. DeQuattro, but the nature of his politics, which are conservative. He says his school takes a liberal position on politicized discourse, just as long as that discourse does not deviate from a left-wing position. Pratt’s opposition to Mr. DeQuattro’s art only underscores the importance of his work. Mr. DeQuattro is asking for outside help in convincing the institution to support his exhibition.
I wish him luck and hope I'm doing my part by publicizing his plight. The way liberals "work" is as disgusting as how they "think" - any underhanded trick will do, whether it's going to DeQuattro's professors, or any of the many things that have happened to me - they're all discriminatory, wrong, and the height of liberal fascism. Especially in the world of art, where I have spent my entire life, there is no place for trying to silence anyone ideologically opposed to you. But silencing others is the liberal's stock in trade - just as we've seen in Wisconsin when the Democrat 14 ran away, rather than allow a vote on issues the people had voted for in the previous election. They're now trying to sell themselves as heroes for doing so, but the truth is they're cowards - cowards without the courage of their convictions to be "politicians" sent to serve.
Needless to say, it is my opinion Steve DeQuattro's fellow students are no more deserving of the title "artists" either.
"Regardless of whether you favored or opposed the health care legislation passed this week, do you think the methods the Democratic leaders in Congress used to get enough legislation — were [they] an abuse of power, or were [they] an appropriate use of power by the party that controls the majority in Congress?
Well, well, well. These are interesting findings on who the supposed "fascists" are out there. What? It doesn't really mean that? Really? Then let's follow it up with some articles noted by James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal:
"• 'Albermarle County GOP's Headquarters Vandalized'--headline, WBDJ-TV Web site (Roanoke, Va.), March 26
• 'Norman Leboon, Accused of Threatening to Kill Rep. Eric Cantor, Donated to Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign'--headline, OpenSecrets.org, March 29
• 'The danger of political violence in this country comes overwhelmingly from one direction--the right, not the left.'--Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, March 30"
4/3/10 UPDATE - Also from The Wall Street Journal:
" • 'The arrests of members of a Michigan-based "Christian" militia group should convince doubters that there is good reason to worry about right-wing, anti-government extremism--and potential violence--in the Age of Obama. . . . The episode highlights the obvious: For decades now, the most serious threat of domestic terrorism has come from the growing ranks of paranoid, anti-government hate groups that draw their inspiration, vocabulary and anger from the far right.It is disingenuous for mainstream purveyors of incendiary far-right rhetoric to dismiss groups such as the Hutaree by saying that there are "crazies on both sides." This simply is not true.'--Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, March 30
• 'Most of the indicted militia members accused of being anti-government extremists have active voting records, a check with area voter registration offices showed yesterday. One is a registered Democrat, and the party affiliations of the rest could not be determined. Jacob J. Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio, voted as a Democrat in the 2004 and 2008 primary elections.'--Toledo Blade, April 1"
Let's see: documented political violence, accompanied (repeatedly) by "spin" from the paper of record, pinning it all on their political opponents. That sounds pretty illiberal if you ask me. Fascist, even, when I put it with the ugly "ends justifies the means" attitude I've seen since ObamaCare was "rammed through" the process. It's like liberals "don't care" if they're doing wrong - which isn't surprising, considering how often they've told me, to my face, they "don't care" about right or wrong and actually want to start a civil war.
Oh well, America's dealt with wannabe fascists before, and it never ends well - for them - so keep it up, kids:
You're eventually going to discover that winning the House - and/or seemingly being in charge - ain't always everything it's cracked-up to be.
I've noticed this since the night Obama got elected: Liberals don't seem aware when they're winning. Which is fine by me, because I have every intention of burying them when the worm turns (and it always does) so their behavior is nothing I choose to lose sleep over. I already knew they're unhinged. No surprises there.
It is frustrating they never remember what all they do, though. I've had a number of people write in, or e-mail, accusing the right of something that eventually gets exposed as false (like Tea Partiers yelling racial slurs) and who are also completely oblivious to what liberals said and did over the eight Bush years - which included open threats to kill the president - or even the history of the Democratic Party being the home of the KKK's "Dixiecrats". (I wish I could see Democrats, now, as trying to make up for that sordid past but, based on their actions and arguments, I don't: they're just race hustlers and, white, black, or brown, they don't care who they're hustling for as long as it brings the party power. Sadly, I'm finding some of that on the right as well,...) I might not care as much if I thought the Dems were actually helping anyone but - like those great mortgages that have now saddled the poor with huge debts for houses they can't afford to live in - "power to the people" just ain't how the Democratic Party rolls.
O.K., that's enough for this latest example of how great liberals - and especially liberal supporters of Senator Harry Reid - supposedly are.
Me? Shit, I'm a known asshole, so I'm getting away from all this shit - right now - before I might have to go to jail,...
"Why do we fail to detect or defeat the guilty, and why do we do so well at collective punishment of the innocent? The answer to the first question is: Because we can't—or won't. The answer to the second question is: Because we can."
-- Christopher Hitchens, noticing the latest result of Our Multi-Culti-Politically Correct NewAge Ying/Yang Culture of Crazy - you know, how we're trying so hard to be friends with everybody, in wartime, only to realize *BAM* we're being played for fools - mostly it's that those Americans who have been apparently accepting of collective self-punishment, for whatever imaginary crime any overseas lamer wants to blame us for, are also now being revealed as having been long ago rendered incapable of conceiving or creating anything more compelling, in response to a threat from the "Old World", than repeatedly being busted after any known incident, angrily hitting themselves over the head with a Slate.
"The superficial fluffily benign language of multiculturalism that comes so naturally to our rulers provides a lot of cover for the shriveling of free speech.... "
-- Mark Steyn, sporting the garments of Captain Obvious - please, someone, tell me something I don't already know or haven't already covered - as NewAge continues to make headway in Canada, shocking The National Review.
Listen, people: I dare you to watch this Christian video from the past (70's? Early 80s?) and tell me you don't hear the Maharishi's NewAge cultists using same "harmless", and seemingly-meaningless, language ("We're taking an 'integrated' approach") that's popular for railroading thought today. How did that happen? How did the lying ideas and phrases of a bunch of fruitcakes - who are out to control the planet and believe they can fly - become the language of the mainstream? In light of the results, as outlined by Mark Steyn above, I think it's the most important question worth asking, especially because anyone older than me isn't going to like the answer - or that answer being revealed. Here's a hint:
Man, those Boomers sure do love to meditate, and anything that smacks of being Eastern, don't they?
And BTW:
The language, seen in the art above, is paraphrasing Karl Marx. My point? Unless you're aware of what they're doing to you, these losers have got you coming-and-going, nodding at anything they say.
It's time for America's solipsism to end. Barack Obama is Oprah's boy from Chicago - and right now they've got the upper hand - so let's agree it's time to play politics with them The Chicago Way:
Recently I was part of an online discussion (on Althouse) when a total liberal named "Jeremy" asked for examples of Left-wing disruptions of free speech - he didn't think they occured. I provided him with one, but Michelle Malkin has done me one better and provided a whole slew of examples - on video!!! Enjoy, People:
"* Don't make a threat without expecting dire consequences.
* Threaten everyone and every behavior you think does not square with an organic, green, globally-warmed new-age life-style. They will fold. There will be no consequences. There never are."
-- Vanderleun, comparing "The Code of the Left vs The Code of the West" (this is number seven on the list) and finding my favorite cult "spiritual" element in there - which any American, by now, should be able to clearly see as our new "way of life" - especially if they read The American Digest.
"...Just as the Nazi attack on Christianity was part of a larger war on the idea of universal truth, whole postmodern cosmologies have been created to prove that traditional religious morality is a scam, that there are no fixed truths or 'natural' categories, and that all knowledge is socially constructed. Or as the line goes in The Da Vinci Code, 'So Dark, the Con of Man.'
The 'con' in question is, in effect, a conspiracy by the Catholic Church to deceive the world about Jesus’ true nature and his marriage to Mary Magdalene. The book has sold some sixty million copies worldwide. The novel, and movie, have generated debates, documentaries, companion books, and the like. But few have called attention to the ominous roots and parallels with Nazi thought.
Dan Brown should have dedicated his book to 'Madame' Helena Blavatsky, the theosophist guru who is widely considered the 'mother' of New Age spirituality as well as a touchstone in the development of Nazi paganism and the chief popularizer of the swastika as a mystical symbol. Her theosophy included a grab bag of cultish notions, from astrology to the belief that Christianity was a grand conspiracy designed to conceal the true meaning and history of the supernatural. Her 1888 book, The Secret Doctrine, attempted to prove the full extent of the grotesque Western conspiracy that The Da Vinci Code only partially illuminates. Christianity was to blame for all the modern horrors of capitalism and inauthentic living, not to mention the destruction of Atlantis.
Alfred Rosenberg’s Myth of the Twentieth Century, the second most important book in the Nazi canon, borrowed ideas wholesale from Blavatsky. Rosenberg lays out one Christian conspiracy after another. 'Before it could fully blossom, the joyous message of German mysticism was strangled by the anti-European church with all the means in its power,' he insists. Like Blavatsky and Brown, he suggests the existence of secret Gospels, which, had they not been concealed by the Church, would debunk the 'counterfeit of the great image of Christ' found in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
'Christianity,' writes Hitler in Mein Kampf, 'was not content with erecting an altar of its own. It had first to destroy the pagan altars.' It was 'the advent of Christianity' that first unleashed the 'spiritual terror' upon 'the much freer ancient world.' Large segments of the cultural left today subscribe to similar notions. For example, Wicca and paganism constitute the fastest growing religion and religious category in America, with adherents numbering anywhere from 500,000 to 5 million depending on whose numbers you accept. If you add 'New Age spirituality,' the number of Americans involved in such avocations reaches 20 million and growing. Feminists in particular have co-opted Wicca as a religion perfectly suited to their politics. Gloria Steinem is rhapsodic about the superior political and spiritual qualities of 'pre-Christian' and 'matriarchal' paganism. In Revolution from Within she laments in all earnestness the 'killing of nine million women healers and other pagan or nonconforming women during the centuries of change-over to Christianity.
The SS chief, Heinrich Himmler, was convinced that the antiwitch craze was an anti-German plot concocted in large part by the Catholic Church: 'The witch-hunting cost the German people hundreds of thousands of mothers and women, cruelly tortured and executed. He dedicated considerable resources for the SS to investigate the witch hunts and prove they were attempts to crush Aryan civilization and the true German faith. The SS put together what amounted to their own X-Files unit—dubbed Special Unit H (for Hexen, or 'witches')—to ferret out the truth of over thirty-three thousand cases of witch burning, in countries as far away as India and Mexico.
Indeed, most of the founders of National Socialism would be far more comfortable talking witchcraft and astrology with a bunch of crystal-worshipping vegans than attending a church social. Consider the Thule Society, named after a supposed lost race of northern peoples hinted at in ancient Greek texts. The society was founded as the Munich chapter of the German Order, and while its occult and theosophical doctrines were nominally central to its charter, the glue that held it together was racist anti-Semitism. Anton Drexler was encouraged by his mentor Dr. Paul Tafel, a leader of the Thule Society, to found the German Workers’ Party, which would soon become the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Its membership was a veritable Who’s Who of founding Nazis, according to Hitler’s biographer Ian Kershaw."
