A Better Idea, White People: Admit You're Guilty As Sin

Culture is a mothafucka

Ann Althouse and Peggy Noonan think they're being compassionate and/or enlightened by promoting this position:

"Here’s an idea: Why don’t you leave the grieving alone right now? Why don’t you not impose your agenda items on them? Why don’t you not force them to debate while they have tears in their throats? Don’t politicize their pain. Don’t turn this into a debate on a flag or guns. Don’t use it to make your points and wave your finger from your high horse. These people are doing it right without you."

Forgetting your "place" in racist America has always run two ways

No - fuck that. This is the *perfect time* to talk about this shit - when everybody's feeling what blacks feel - except for the part about whites being crazy homicidal maniacs that blacks have had to live with for hundreds of years. THAT, they're not talking about, at all. And these bitches don't want it to start. Not now, not ever.

We know who you are

Because they can stay ruthlessly insane as long as that's the case,....

On Who "No One" Is (And Where The Somebodies Are)

"I have never seen a president in exactly the position Mr. Obama is, which is essentially alone. He’s got no one with him now." 

 - Peggy Noonan 

  Obama Inexplicably Scores Among Blacks 

 - Deroy Murdock, Newsmax

  [White supremacist Jared] Taylor,...traveled to Hungary last month to organize an international conference of white supremacists,... 

...William Regnery, the founder of the National Policy Institute (and heir to the conservative publishing powerhouse Regnery, home to best-sellers from Ann Coulter, Dinesh D’Souza, and Edward Klein, among others) was immediately sent back to the United States when he arrived at Budapest’s airport. Richard Spencer, the director of NPI, was arrested in a Budapest pub when he tried to organize a casual gathering of the conference’s attendees. The conference-goers already had been evicted from the hotel where their meeting was scheduled to take place." 

 - Martin Gelin, Slate

 

Living A Tom Wolfe Novel Every Single Day Of My Life

After she pulled an Althouse, and backed Obama before Romney, I still don't understand why Gawker is one of the few outlets providing this kind of political coverage:

 

Breathy Reaganite Peggy Noonan has lived. She has stayed in a hotel, traveled to darkest Brooklyn, and even seen a Mexican.

Truly living a life of danger:

But thankfully, unlike Althouse, Peggy's never deigned to show "the other half" her travel photos,...

 

If Glenn Reynolds Cared Enough, About The Truth, He'd Actually Spell It Out Every Once In A While On Althouse

As usual, I never should've glanced at Glenn Reynolds, because his hypocrisy drives me up a wall:

  "You backed (Obama) and looked down on those who saw through him from the beginning."

That's Glenn talking to the WSJ's Peggy Noonan - not his feminist pal, Ann Althouse - though Ann voted the same way, behaved even worse, and still gets Glenn's support without a word of admonishment or ridicule. Like nobody will notice. I swear, the safety of that well-padded conservative caccoon must be nice, because I guarantee you:

If TMR had Instapundit's visibility, as wrong as he is, as often as he is - or after exposing what the whole law professor/Althouse connection, alone, means - Glenn Reynolds would be revealed:

As a sucker, a race-baiter, and a horse's ass,...

Passing Thoughts (2U) Without Ever Moving My Mouth

Alright, let's open our minds a little bit, enough to accept tech workers getting weird "on the path":

“It’s going to be a place on Earth that becomes a sacred space for growth and development. The people who need love will end up here. We want the world to be a part of this. It’s not a secret journey, but you still have to go on that journey to get here.”

If you need a refresher before you take off, here's more on how we got here from wherever there was:

“In the United States, similar elite lobbying efforts to institutionalise nonsense were firmly launched in 1991 (a couple of years before the Prince formed the Foundation for Integrated Health) when the Senate Appropriations Committee -- which is responsible for funding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- set in motion a chain of events that led to the formation of the Office of Alternative Medicine. The 'prime mover' behind this momentous turn of events was Appropriations Committee chair, Tom Harkin, a Democrat from Iowa, who 'had been urged to take this legislative step by two constituents, Berkley Bedell and Frank Wiewel.' All three men having personally witnessed the alleged curative power of alternative medicine, and were therefore keen to use their political clout to advance their wacky personal beliefs. 

So it was that a Congressional mandate forced mysticism upon the very heart of the medical establishment, with initial members of the Office of Alternative Medicine's advisory panel including best-selling New Age authors Deepak Chopra and Bernie Siegel, not to mention Bedell and Wiewel. Unfortunately the Office of Alternative Medicine has gone from strength-to-strength, and in 1999 was re-established as a full NIH center known as the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). This is not, however, to say that they have done anything useful (yet), other than prove that the utility of alternative therapies have no material basis. On this matter a recent study actually demonstrated that after distributing some $2 billion of funding the Center had made 'no discoveries in alternative medicine that would justify the current annual expenditure of $134 million' to maintain its existence.”

Speaking of things we can get rid of, I don't see how Peggy Noonan's winning anything (except in the Charlie Sheen sense) but everything else seems accurate:

"What’s strange about the column is that Noonan somehow takes the evident toll of the allegations against the IRS as proof that the Obama administration has gotten away with something: that this was a real and damaging scandal that is being dismissed by the media as overhyped. But what she is describing is in fact proof of the exact opposite: the allegations have taken a great toll on the agency (and, polls suggest, on Obama himself) precisely because they were overhyped and not dismissed by the media. In other words, Peggy Noonan won. She just doesn’t seem able or willing to admit it. 

The fact is, the more we learn about the scandal, the more egregiously and irresponsibly overwrought the initial coverage of it appears."

Fuck Peggy. I've got my own problems. One of 'em is everybody needs to grow up. Here's but one of the topics I'm struggling with - and, I think, the fact I so rarely see it addressed can have multiple meanings, good and bad:

"Where is the diversity of popular voices in Rap that give voice to being/acting like an adult? Perhaps I’m asking for too much. Maybe Rap is supposed to stay young—it’s a youth movement. Maybe I’m supposed to outgrow Rap as an art form while maintaining my love for Hip-Hop culture. I refuse to believe that’s true, though. But is Rap ready for the “' take care of my family and it’s difficult at times/I’m trying to pay my bills while simultaneously writing these rhymes'” record?"

I just don't know. Consider the man I mentioned in one of my songs, appearing (for the umpteenth time) to validate every word I said:

“Hip hop star DMX was arrested for driving under the influence in South Carolina this past week. Despite attempts by the rapper's publicist to deny reports of his arrest, it has been confirmed that X reportedly failed a sobriety test after being stopped by state troopers on July 25th. 

The South Carolina Highway Patrol told HipHipWired that DMX was arrested after being identified as a "possible DUI driver" in a 1978 Plymouth station wagon and was stopped for driving erratically. He failed a field sobriety test. He was also charged with not having a driver's license and not wearing a seat belt. 

Footage also surfaced of the arrest.”

 

I can't wait. Just as I can't wait for a new book out with a very provocative title:

“My Life in a Love Cult: A Warning to All Young Girls, My True Life Story by Marion Dockerill, High Priestess of Oom, 1928.”

1928? Wow. She was obviously a member of the NEW NewAge,...

 

Who Will Watch The Watchmen? Nobody, That's Who,...

Peggy Noonan has another funny, head-spinningly-whacked, and completely oblivious column for us today, on "How Far Obama Has Fallen":

Why did the president make such mistakes? Why did he make decisions that seemed so unknowing, and not only in retrospect? Because he had so much confidence, he thought whatever he did would work. He thought he had "a gift," as he is said to have told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He thought he had a special ability to sway the American people, or so he suggested to House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor. 

But whenever he went over the heads of the media and Congress and went to the people, in prime-time addresses, it didn't really work. He did not have a magical ability to sway. And—oddly—he didn't seem to notice. 

It is one thing to think you're Lebron. It's another thing to keep missing the basket and losing games and still think you're Lebron. 

And that really was the problem: He had the confidence without the full capability. And he gathered around him friends and associates who adored him, who were themselves talented but maybe not quite big enough for the game they were in. They understood the Democratic Party, its facts and assumptions. But they weren't America-sized. They didn't get the country so well. 

It is a mystery why the president didn't second-guess himself more, doubt himself. Instead he kept going forward as if it were working.

Some "mystery". I've got a picture of the reason right here:

Except for the line "he gathered around him friends and associates who adored him, who were themselves talented but maybe not quite big enough for the game they were in," Peggy Noonan offers not a single acknowledgement she had anything to do with what's happened. Nope - it's all this Peggy's fault:
 

Michelle Malkin labeled Joseph "Peggy The Moocher" - showing a nicely-honed lack of civility that pissed no one off, BTW - which raises the question:

Why has Obama "fallen" but the nation's Peggy Noonan's - whose endorsement helped put Obama over the top - can carry on as though they're still credible? As though they can "keep missing the basket and losing games and still think you're Lebron"? Why do they pay no penalty?

This is going on all around us, still, and will continue until we're doomed by their decisions - and finally, pushed by reason, compelled to kick them out - because it'll then be obvious they won't/don't/can't adMitt when they're wrong and just leave the stage. Instead, we're stuck listening to more of their insane rattling, except now it's going from one sap's assessment of the crease in someone's pant leg to another's "less than inspiring endorsement for a less than inspiring man."

Which is one way to spin him, I guess,…

 

Let's Be Clear, Ladies: I'm The Only One Who Does The Crazy Ranting Around Here (Insuring No Jews Get Hurt)

Let's start with a quote from crazy Camille Paglia, and assess the accuracy of what Ann Althouse says is "a fine rant":

I was very excited about [Obama]. I thought he was a moderate. I thought that his election would promote racial healing in the country.

“My good blog friend The Crack Emcee at The Macho Response rants 

but that's his style and he's good at it."

 --Panda Bear, M.D.

Humpf! With an M.D. after his name or no M.D., nobody ever assumed I'd promote "healing" of any kind - I ain't the "healing" type. (Paglia's currently selling the idea that George Lucas and Madonna are The Greatest Artists Of Our Time - Whoo Boy, Howdy! There is no life left in us! Medic! We are GONE!) Anyway, Althouse is next, commenting on Paglia's supposedly "fine rant":

This is how I felt, when I voted for Obama in 2008. Except I wouldn't say I was "very excited." I wasn't caught up in the ecstasy. I thought it was the better bet,,...

I'm so surprised. Let's look at that "better bet" rationally, shall we? 

 War hero, long-serving United States Senator, etc., who leans on his own Republican Party's excesses

Vs. 

Nobody

Yeah, we lost that bet - but neither of these female professors has taken any blame for the further ruination of the country. That would be too direct, too blunt, too real. (You ever tried hitting on one of those types of women?) Reality ain't the problem, it's their need for self-delusion.

When NewAgers are dissatisfied with themselves, they escape whoever shows how dumb they are, not to learn but basically to do more damage.

It's the essence of NewAge. Especially for feminists. Everything's expendable, and self-criticism is utterly worthless. Crazy is empowering. Reality can't hold a candle to the political strategy of seeing what you want to believe and acting on it.

I have mentioned feminism is NewAge, haven't I? Or does anyone think all this "Gaia" and "Goddess" talk just popped out of nowhere? Please. These are female dreams of "ancient teachings":

In their minds, this is a woman-ruled planet, lorded over by "Mother Nature," and men are their lowly pawns, to be moved around at will, replacing one "better bet" for another. Men are not actual people, or the people who actually built this place, but stepping-stones to female success, lucky to carry their weight.

And since this balkanized bitch-fest has taken hold in the West, things have slid downhill. But not to worry - it's her hill. No "real" men allowed - just their boyfriends.

And before I forget, let's note Ann Althouse "wasn't caught up in the ecstasy" of 2008 (nor, presumably, was Camille) or that it wasn't "ecstasy" but cultish political hysteria, or that - whatever you want to call it - women didn't let such odd behavior deter them from voting like those "caught up" in it. Because that's critical thinking for you:

You see the madness, right in front of your eyes, but you go along with it anyway - all the while claiming you've made a "rational choice."

At least that's the way it's playing out nowadays. Here's the title of another recent post that finds Ann mocking the obvious:

"The Emptiest Candidate in Presidential Election History: Mitt Romney truly believes in nothing."

On this one Ann begins with the words "They've got nothing on him." A personal assessment no doubt, written because she's never heard the term "Flip-Flopper," or would ever print anything "they" do have on him. Take Romney biographer Ronald B. Scott:

"As president of the Boston stake, Romney owed church leaders a consultation before doing anything that might cause them trouble. In October or November 1993, he went to Salt Lake City to meet with them and explain the abortion position he was going to take. He told them he would say that he opposed abortion personally but that such private beliefs shouldn't be imposed on others. If he didn't frame his position as pro-choice, he'd lose. Many of the church leaders were unhappy with Romney's formulation. But if they wanted him in the Senate, this was the best they were going to get."

Romney's a bought-and-sold member of a spiritual cult of political shape-shifters, but not a word from Ann concerning their ambitions ("they wanted him in the Senate"). Instead, now that so many want Romney in the White House - just like in 2008 - we're back to pretending "They've got nothing" on someone else. They're all clean, until they get elected, it seems.

Here's another of Glenn Reynolds' glorious fellow nut jobs, Michelle Malkin, this time mocking a member of Glenn Reynolds' "Four Horsemen" configuration:

"Mormon-basher Andrew Sullivan: ‘Romney belonged to white supremacist church’"

Is this even in question? Or that the LDS was a "white supremacist church" while Romney was an adult? Was Sullivan Mormon-bashing or stating fact? It's as much of the former as Malkin's claim that "real reporter" Juan Williams used "misogynist rhetoric," when saying Ann Romney's story of youthful poverty was "phony." A claim that was since been borne out.

 They're so cute when they're angry.

What I noticed, in both cases, is there's never been a statement of wrong-doing by Malkin, nor any retraction of her slanderous claims, nor even so much as a word of apology. Not only has one not been offered, but it doesn't have to be made in a society (if I must call this unethical collective a society) where none is expected. This is the world they've created - but expect to be loved for.

Why Does Everyone Hate Women?

--Megan McArdle

Post-feminism? Really? Come on. You're kidding me, right?

Let's move to Peggy Noonan - she's got another whopper in the hopper. This time it's "When Americans Saw the Real Obama." I would've thought, since Noonan was an enthusiastic Obama supporter four years ago (like Althouse and Paglia) she'd wonder aloud about why and/or how she missed what's been right under her nose the whole time. No such luck. There's not a single "Come To Jesus" moment in her entire piece. Nope, she's still Brilliantly Observant Peggy, who just happened to let this "strangely clueless" man run an elaborate ruse past her - by being exactly the same person he's always been.

Sound familiar?

Even after reading Obama's book, saying he lets people see what they want in him, self-delusion isn't a part of Noonan's (or Althouse's or Paglia's or Malkin's) formulation of what's been happening with them. Few seem capable of considering it. This level of rationalization's a real skill. I've seen it before - displayed by many others who've all appreciated a good scream, mixed with a dose of mass insanity, now and then. NewAge marches on, but it never changes.

Guy Liddell diaries: Hitler's rant on how he was deceived by 'everyone' during his last days in Berlin bunker.

Ha! I shouldn't be too hard on poor Peggy - everyone's scared - and, as we've seen, far from alone. 

What's the only "Final Solution" now?

 To keep making as much fucking sense as everybody else,...