"The facts, however unpalatable. The truth, no matter how bitter” is, conservatives have reduced the enterprise of governing to soap opera, displaying all the signs of bad actors (pun intended) who - like the French - are fun to watch, but still deserving of contempt and comeuppance.
History shows the answers devised, for even the country's obvious flaws, were always long in coming, and most only after a long fight - why, that has to be so, is the question.
I love the stunning defense this "reporter" offers.
Hasn't it occurred to anyone else that what just happened, between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin, was exactly what conservatives predicted from the beginning, in one form or another? That we were going to lose under this man? Remember back when it was Obama declaring we were not exceptional?
Then why are we surprised?
The hippies said, by way of them, the American Empire will fall - they got their fall guy. Happy now?
In 2008 and then again in 2012, after retired four-star General Colin Powell endorsed and then voted for Barack Obama, the former Secretary of State's sanity was already in question. At least now, after having his email account hacked by high-level security-breacher Guccifer, Colin Powell's besmirching of the Republican Party's "shift to the right" and "identity crisis" finally makes sense.
It seems that for years the mannerly and always professional Colin Powell has been cyber-comporting with a 46-year-old Romanian European Parliament member, Social Democrat, and past spokesperson for Romanian president Ion Iliescu named Corina Creţu. So it's safe to say that Colin Powell was probably the one in the throes of an "identity crisis."
As vice chair of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, Corina Creţu, who once called Powell the "love of her life," had, on occasion, spoken out against cruelty to women worldwide. Yet thanks to her progressive mindset, seducing in hopes of 'sharing' someone else's husband must not be a problem for her.
The fact that Colin Powell would associate with a communist sympathizer, never mind carry on titillating banter with a woman 30 years his junior, indicates risky and immature behavior just a notch above Weinergate. Either way, the revelations do put into context Powell's ability to support progressive socialist Barack Obama. General Powell lowered standards within his marriage, which apparently translated into lower standards politically.
Not for nothing, but it is kind of ironic that Colin Powell, whom many believed voted for Barack Obama simply because he's black, cyber-cheated on his African-American wife Alma with a blonde Marxist from Romania.
Colin's connubial infidelity and cyber-flirting was going on during the time the general was hitting the talk show circuit, calling Barack Obama a "transformational figure." That right there proves that the former Secretary of State's ability to discern right from wrong had already been severely compromised.
Yes, I do remember when Colin Powell was talking like a cult member.
I also remember my Republicans then tried to elect a cult LEADER,...
Since it's pretty obvious Teen America (as opposed to Team America) is now procrastinating by lurching, zombie-like, through this low-boil firearms hysteria (there's always gotta be something) I won't bother anyone with what I've been doing lately - except to mention looking into Alabama 3, the crew who penned the immortal words "You Woke Up This Morning And Got Yourself A Gun" AKA The Soprano's much-loved theme song.
See I, too, like brains - and aim to keep mine, thanks.
Nope, all I want noticed is how far afield this English band is in other, more substantive, TMR-like ways than simply acknowledging the West's long-standing proclivity for flying lead. Namely, when it comes to dealing directly with Teen America's issues of belief, A3 also seems more than capable enough - curiously, I might add - though they still can't rap for shit.
(All the atheists in the house say, "Amen, well I'll be damned" - no, really, we will be. I'm positive. Don't worry about it. They got all this stuff wrong. It's like a pin-prick at best. Think of it like this: Getting your flu shot/Getting Damned - same thing.)
Seriously, I didn't even have to ask, beg, plead, show a little leg, please, God, or Oprah - whichever comes first in the phone book - would it be possible for A3 to add just a smidgen of Jim Jones into the mix? Please, please, oh pretty please, just for me? A little cult hectoring from The People's Temple leader himself and - I swear, you know I do - like global warming, Walking For A Cure to ________, and We Are All One But Obama Is "The One" theology, I'll believe in you, forever and ever!
Nope, there was none of that, all I did was think "this would be nice" and the rest was magick:
That, my friends, is what I call being metaphysically Cool-y School-y w/The Universe!
I am obviously a great and powerful MahaCracki now and - since I know it's about people - I aim to stay out of the "gun" debate. I have clearly gained too much cult mental power to be contained by mere debate. It's like, wow, awesome. I just think of stuff and it happens. Just like that. A3? Too easy. A test case that was just too easy. Now I think, what if I wanted to start a fire - with my mind? Or what about this:
The entire planet becoming dedicated to the sentiments of Hallmark cards - through song!
Man, Brian Wilson and I could be pals right now, but probably shouldn't be. Fucking hippie.
I'd wear a helmet but the world's an ugly enough place as it is,...
Good ol' Slavoj Žižek - the sorta-friendly Marxist who declared "New Age 'Asiatic' thought is establishing itself as the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism" - has a newer statement of merit:
'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots'
The two statements even go together.
It's not often I get to agree with Marxists but, if you ask me, the man is on aroll,….
It is, both, tragic and fascinating a majority of the citizens in this nation could and would elect a man to it's highest office they not only knew nothing about, but didn't even care to learn. And, three years into his presidency, could still know so little their "hope and change" hero can still be accurately referred to as an enigma.
It's a more accurate title than Oprah's "The One".
The willed ignorance of NewAge is a very funny, strange, and scary cultural phenomena,...
So they're the progressives, huh? We thought so. What did Glenn Reynolds say again:
Communists are as bad as Nazis, and their defenders and apologists are as bad as Nazis’ defenders, but far more common. When you meet them, show them no respect. They’re evil, stupid, and dishonest. They should not enjoy the consequences of their behavior.
Yea, and there's so many of them in this country. And they get time on American television news. And reporters don't even know enough not to give them airtime without telling the truth of what they've already done or are known to be about. Here, let Big Fur Hat tell it:
Ya, I’m sure the history lessons at this Marxist College include the communist purges, the intentional famines, the political assassinations, the disappearance of dissidents and the failures of every society that has attempted this “fairness.”
And yet here it is, presented to Americans as a viable political option they should check out. As far as we're concerned, this reporter, and her editor, should be fired.
New Age "Asiatic" thought,...is establishing itself as the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism.
Is it possible - just possible - that under this Maharishi-inspired brainwashing regime, the problem is really "management is so freaking ass-backwards awful I'd rather stick needles in my eyes than return to that place"?
Is that even a remote possibility, Professor?
That the people running things - you know, those guys at your level - are such useful idiots we'd rather take our chances utilizing the law of the jungle? And, if so, tell us this:
What's "fun" about that?
Seriously, if anybody wants an analogy that really works, how about saying the average office environment can be about as dispiriting as reading Glenn Reynolds telling us why people don't want to go back there!
At least that jibes with how it looks from down here. Shit, even Barack Obama don't listen to anybody but himself. It's all deafness, starting at the top, and shit rolling downhill:
I am not a good person to ask about feminism "because I am a male chauvinist." Feminism is a phony movement rooted in Marxist-Leninist ideology.
Peter Schwartz of the Ayn Rand Institute nailed it way back in 1991:
While feminists claim to be pursuing justice for women, it is becoming ever more apparent that their actual goal is the obliteration of justice. More precisely, their aim is to eliminate that which makes justice possible: objective standards. Instead of urging employers, for example, to adopt objective standards of merit in hiring and to apply them consistently to all candidates, irrespective of the (irrelevant) fact of gender, feminists call for the very opposite. They demand the lowering or the suspension of standards, in order to accommodate certain women.
Caroline Glick eviscerates the phony feminist movement in a recent column, "The Feminist Deception," in which she says that "the feminist label has never been solely or even predominantly about preventing and ending oppression or discrimination of women. It has been about advancing the Left's social and political agenda against Western societies." Glick adds that "rather than being about advancing the cause of women, to a large extent, the feminist movement has used the language of women's rights to advance a social and political agenda that has nothing to do with women. So to a large degree, the feminist movement itself is a deception."
The proof of that is how feminists react to genuine oppression of women. Every time they are approached after an honor killing, feminist groups defer and redirect the media inquiry to Muslim groups. Why? Is there a form of femicide acceptable to feminists?
Apparently so: Gloria Steinem's Ms. Foundation provides funding to the American Society for Muslim Advancement, one of the pseudo-moderate Islamic supremacist groups behind the Ground Zero mega-mosque. I guess Steinem doesn't care that Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf is an open proponent of Islamic law (Sharia), the most oppressive system for women ever devised in human history, or that his wife Daisy Khan counsels women in how to deal positively with polygamy (multiple wives is de rigueur in Islam).
These vicious, parasitical feminists are worse than useless. They are dangerous, as evidenced by the Jew-hating, pro-jihad feminist mob in Philadelphia. Do these women know that lesbians are executed in Muslim countries? Do these women know that the jihad in Israel is about Islamic anti-Semitism, not land? Do these women care about the gender apartheid in the Muslim world? How do they look at the faces of the victims of honor killing and then look in the mirror? The craven silence of feminists in the face of the left's withering criticism of my honor killing taxi ad campaign and freedom buses for apostates from Islam is a stunning indictment of their motives.
Feminists' mission by objective is not empowerment, but just the opposite: slavery. They want government-funded independence. Oxymoronic.
To say that feminism was one of the worst things to happen to women is being kind. I blame the left for the feminization of men.
Quick, somebody call Meade:
He's sure to pay her a visit, babbling about "fear".
"Probably no one has coined as many memorable phrases about belief than GK Chesterton. His key insight was to observe that 'human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind'. Hope is like a drug which humanity can’t survive without. Therefore hope — and the faith that it will be fulfilled – is 'as dangerous as fire.' The wisest treat it with caution because it can be twisted into a noose around their necks; but the most careless of humanity imagine themselves above it and fall into it more completely than those who see it from what it is. Chesterton wrote that 'the modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas. It may be said even that the modern world, as a corporate body, holds certain dogmas so strongly that it does not know that they are dogmas.'"
Someone just sent me this Richard Fernandez piece, and that quote, above, made me laugh.
I was married to a killer NewAger, someone who was convinced - despite numerous failures - she could "heal", so the idea that "hope — and the faith that it will be fulfilled – is 'as dangerous as fire'" isn't something I'm completely unfamiliar with.
As a matter of fact, I'd say I'm more familiar with the reality of Fernandez's topic than he is (I'm his "ordinary" guy who's been handed an "aim of some kind" while, apparently, he's a Christian who muses about cults now and then):
In other words, I've actually been living what he's just writing about - and writing about pretty cluelessly:
I think I might be able to see a few things Richard Fernandez, or most people reading this post, might not.
Like Chesterton's observation that "the modern world, as a corporate body, holds certain dogmas so strongly that it does not know that they are dogmas" only leads me to Slavoj Žižek's observation that today "New Age 'Asiatic' thought ... is establishing itself as the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism."
Didn't see that one coming, did you? That's right: you could already be under it's spell and not even know it.
"Political expression on the Left in the American sixties was split. Radical activists such as Students for a Democratic Society (1960-68) drew their ideology from Marxism, with its explicit atheism. But demonstrations with a large hippie contingent often mixed politics with occultism-magic and witchcraft along with costumes and symbolism drawn from Native American religion, Hinduism, and Buddhism. For example, at the mammoth antiwar protest near Washington, DC, in October 1967, Yippies performed a mock-exorcism to levitate the Pentagon and cast out its demons. Not since early nineteenth-century Romanticism had there been such a strange mix of revolutionary politics with ecstatic nature-worship and sex-charged self-transformation. It is precisely this phantasmagoric religious vision that distinguishes the New Left of the American 1960s from the Old Left of the American 1930s and from France's failed leftist insurgency of 1968, both of which were conventionally Marxist in their indifference or antagonism to religion."
That's the history of your enemy.
Richard Fernandez is on Pajamas Media with Victor Davis Hanson, who's looking at our current politics and crying, "What is the logic behind something so clearly unhinged?"
Maybe , if Fernandez ever reads this, he can show it to VDH and everything will start to make a lot more sense. You know, like this:
"The Material Girl is such a fervent believer, she reportedly paid almost $10,000 to have the radiators in her 10-bedroom London house filled with Kabbalah holy water so the heating system would radiate spirituality, according to London’s News of the World.
Madonna, 51, reportedly believes it gives the house a spiritual quality and will help heal and protect its residents. The Pope doesn’t even go to such lengths at the Vatican.
'It’s cost a fortune. She’d have Kabbalah water coming out of the kitchen taps if she could,' a source told the tabloid. Word about holy water coursing through the house leaked (so to speak) when plumbers were called to her residence to fix a faulty radiator.
The housekeeper informed them that they couldn’t drain the radiator because of the water.
'The housekeeper was in a flap and told them it was blessed water and they could not drain it,' the source said.
'But they insisted they had to change a broken valve. It took almost an hour before she gave in and allowed them to put the water in steel buckets, pleading with them not to spill a drop.'
Holy Kabbalah water apparently was one of the reasons behind Madonna’s split from Ritchie.
She apparently blew up when he cancelled a near $20,000 order for Kabbalah holy water to fill the swimming pool at their Wiltshire house, the paper reported.
Madonna was also said to have caused an uproar when boy toy Jesus Luz’s parents found out that Madonna was trying to convert their Roman Catholic raised son to the mystical religion."
It's called NewAge, Gentlemen. And it'll haunt your dreams.
