It Don't Change: You Can't Save The Planet With Magic

Three things, real fast, and I'm gone:

1) I don't quote The New York Times much anymore, but our morons have flipped the script enough that even the NYT can crow:

  “Sarah Palin finally got her death panels — a direct blow from the Republican House. In shutting down the government, leaving 800,000 people without a paycheck and draining the economy of $300 million a day, the Party of Madness also took away last-chance cancer trials for children at the National Institutes of Health.

And now that the pain that was dismissed as a trifle on Monday, a “slimdown” according to the chuckleheads at Fox News, is revealed as tragic by mid-week, the very radicals who caused the havoc are trying to say it’s not their fault. It’s too late. They flunked hostage-taking,...

...Politically, the shutdown is terrible for a party trying to rebrand itself. When Bobby Jindal said Republicans have to “stop being the party of stupid,” he swallowed a teaspoon of common sense. That’s been washed away by a river of stupid.”

2) Here's what I just wrote at Lem's a little while ago:

   I'm assuming, though it's awful to do, that somebody hasn't seen that episode of Star Trek with the blob that gets stronger every time you shoot at it.



Or they've never been outnumbered and knocked down in a fight, or a "hazing" (or, Ladies, possibly being raped) and the attackers are getting off on the victim struggling to get free. What is the victim to do? Answer:



Look your attacker in the eyes and STOP FIGHTING.



Look, guys, this one is un-winnable. There is no - NO - upside. All you can do now is stop the bleeding.



The Right read too much Alinsky. We've got a million tacticians (listen to Cody talk) but no strategists. And, right now, we're screwed for it.



Dana Loesch is part of the problem. Every one of these pricks that have led us to this Dead End is responsible for us being here.



All you can do is demand Ted Cruz end this now.



It was the wrong fight, at the wrong time, for the wrong reason.



And everybody gets that but the people doing it.

3) And, if we don't get serious about killing the West's cult problem, we will have a bigger one on our hands - grey emphasis mine:

   The Devon cult that canes tiny children to ‘cleanse their sins’: As social services launches an investigation, a mother’s shocking testimony lifts the lid on the mysterious commune squatting on a farm

• 'Vicki' has lifted the lid on the commune she escaped from in 2005

• Then a vulnerable, single mother, she was ordered to beat her son

• The commune is linked to the controversial US Twelve Tribes cult

• Forty children were taken in to care at two German branches recently

• The NSPCC has now raised concerns with Stentwood Farm in Devon

We can do this,...