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| Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 | | 10:18 pm |
How's That WoD Workin' Out Ferya?
Here's the latest from the front lines of the WarOnDrugs™, and the nanny state's latest successes in getting the "kids" off drugs. Sure, it's gotten so ridiculous that your local 7-11 will actually demand to see the ID of guys and gals sporting thinning, grey (or in the case of guys) almost no hair. You can just whip out that AARP membership card if you go to buy a six-pack or even a pack of smokes. Kids, these days, have it pretty rough. Not like stories of those wild 'n' freaky 60s and 70s you keep hearing from your elders, when you could actually find a convenience store where the counter man would look the other way, or accept that obviously bogus ID card you bought from the back page of many a comic book. ("Suuuuuure you're 21". Wink, wink). Hell, it was once a rite of passage back before uptight libbies and their nonsense about, well, just about every damn thing under the Sun. ( Where There's A Will ) Current Mood:  amused | | Friday, March 30th, 2012 | | 9:03 pm |
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More Distract and Deflect
I have been watching this latest media created shitstorm unfold without comment. I held off for two reasons: not to publicize this bullshit any further, and to make certain of my conclusions before popping off to avoid a rush to judgement, unlike all too damn many, both within the Leftstream Media, and outside of it ( Classic Distract and Deflect ) Current Mood:  pissed off | | Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 | | 10:41 am |
| | Friday, February 24th, 2012 | | 8:20 am |
He's At It Again
Here is something I found quite by accident last night. I didn't hear about this from the lamestream media, and I haven't seen so much as a peep from FAUX News (so much for its being a "conservative" news channel). ( Slimy Dems ) | | Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 | | 3:22 pm |
Eating Their Own
Occupy Wall St. has turned on its own. This is an official Occupy website that called for a protest against an appearance at a fund raiser in Harlem. The folks over at the Kos are none too pleased with this. Let's not forget that the same outfit ignored completely an appearance by Romney a few days earlier. If the Dems "thought" that this movement would play in their favour for getting Lucemon re-elected, they have another thing coming. "Occupy", created, funded, and organized by the usual suspects on the far left has turned on its own. Now, it's the left who're calling The One a "Nazi" and making the comparisons to "Hitler" here. Will the LSM call them "racists"? Karma is a bitch. Current Mood: amused | | Sunday, February 19th, 2012 | | 11:55 am |
| | Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 | | 3:10 pm |
A Bizzare Website
I came across this site Working Minds: A Philosophy of Empowerment. From the Welcome Screen:
The 'Working Minds' Philosophy of Empowerment is
innovative, pragmatic, and progressive.
It is based partly on the ideas of Ayn Rand, Albert Camus,
Eric Berne [Transactional Analysis], Carlos Castañeda, C. Wright Mills,
Thorstein B. Veblen and others, with a little quantum physics and
many other ideas ... plus a host of original thought.
( The Weirdness Goes On ) Current Mood: amused | | Thursday, February 9th, 2012 | | 11:43 pm |
| | Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 | | 1:54 pm |
Conservatives Are Stupid...
...so says George Monboit Moonbat. The Right's Stupidity Spreads.
Self-deprecating, too liberal for their own good, today's progressives stand back and watch, hands over their mouths, as the social vivisectionists of the right slice up a living society to see if its component parts can survive in isolation. Tied up in knots of reticence and self-doubt, they will not shout stop. Doing so requires an act of interruption, of presumption, for which they no longer possess a vocabulary.
And, of course, the failing lies with Libbies who're "too nice" and "polite" to mention this, and to develop the balls to oppose us stupid, idiotic conservatives. Too "polite" to constantly remind us that the whole Tea Party is thinly disguised White Supremacy. Oh, and our oh-so-polite Leftists would never lower themselves to coining a derogatory term like "teabaggers" to describe the members of the Tea Party. Really! What colour is the sky on whatever plane of alternative reality Moonbat occupies? I suppose Moonbat counts that the left hasn't begun the process of weeding out those 25 million "undesirables" mentioned in You Don't need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows as "...an act of interruption, of presumption...".
It is by no means the first such paper. There is plenty of research showing that low general intelligence in childhood predicts greater prejudice towards people of different ethnicity or sexuality in adulthood. Open-mindedness, flexibility, trust in other people: all these require certain cognitive abilities. Understanding and accepting others -- particularly "different" others -- requires an enhanced capacity for abstract thinking.
Now it seems this paper is discussing another subject entirely. Moonbat's intellectual integrity doesn't impress me. So who's the one with the low intelligence here? The one that "thought" a research paper was calling conservatives "stupid" when it would seem it was about something else entirely, or who simply forgot to lie about it. Interesting that there is not one single quote from this report.
The result is a "shift to ever more extreme, ever more fantasy-based ideology" which has "ominous real-world consequences for American society".
Here is more of that Liberal "projection" at work: accuse the opposition of being/doing/saying what Liberals are really saying/doing. There is no more fantasy based idiot-ology than leftist idiot-ology. It has failed everywhere it has been tried, every time and place.
Any party elected by misinformed, suggestible voters becomes a vehicle for undisclosed interests.
"Misinformed, suggestible voters": this describes the majority of Obama voters who never bothered to look past the slick image and vacuous talk of "hopenchange". The concept of irony really is totally lost on people like Mr. Moonbat.
A tax break for the 1% is dressed up as freedom for the 99%. The regulation that prevents big banks and corporations exploiting us becomes an assault on the working man and woman. Those of us who discuss man-made climate change are cast as elitists by people who happily embrace the claims of Lord Monckton, Lord Lawson or thinktanks funded by ExxonMobil or the Koch brothers: now the authentic voices of the working class.
And when the costs necessarily skyrocket when those carbon taxes and credits and whatever goes into effect, who pays? It ain't gonna be the likes of Algore. After all, paying $15.00/gallon of gas is nothing. he'll dig a little deeper into those $100 million's he makes off trading carbon credits and he'll keep driving, flying his private jet, living in a castle of a house. It probably won't be George Moonbat either. The one who pays and pays and pays will be the little people, you know, the ones who try to make a living flipping burgers, or stocking shelves at the Wal-Mart, or who cashier at the corner 7-11. How will they get to work? At $15.00/gallon (or more!) they will be placed in a position of trying to decide if it's worth it to keep the lights on, or eat. Between making the rent, or seeing a movie, or going out instead of dining on Ramen noodles yet again. These are the folks who bear the full burden. So, yes, Mr. Moonbat, they are elitists, and elitists of the worst sort.
But when I survey this wreckage I wonder who the real idiots are. Confronted with mass discontent, the once-progressive major parties, as Thomas Frank laments in his latest book Pity the Billionaire, triangulate and accommodate, hesitate and prevaricate, muzzled by what he calls "terminal niceness".
Is it "terminal niceness", or do these people actually understand the consequences of failed leftist idiot-ology? One suspects they do, and they have been trying to keep the looniest of the left safely corralled.
They fail to produce a coherent analysis of what has gone wrong and why, or to make an uncluttered case for social justice, redistribution and regulation. The conceptual stupidities of conservatism are matched by the strategic stupidities of liberalism.
I thought they already had a coherent analysis of what went wrong. Or is it that they already know where that leads? "It's turkeys all the way down". And the Turkey in Chief is George Moonbat. Current Mood: amused | | Thursday, December 29th, 2011 | | 7:54 am |
| | Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 | | 2:39 pm |
| | Sunday, December 11th, 2011 | | 5:44 pm |
| | Tuesday, November 29th, 2011 | | 7:00 pm |
What the Hell is it With These Boomers?
I really want to know. It doesn't matter what part of the political spectrum they come from. Right, left, up, down, sideways: it's always the same narcissism, the same overblown sense of self-importance. ( Someone Tell Me ) Current Mood: amused | | Monday, October 24th, 2011 | | 1:07 pm |
Just Because They're Elite...
...Means they have more money than you, not that they are smarter. These fat cats are running scared of the monster of their own making. This post today ties in directly with another from nearly two years ago: The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum. This was well before anyone ever heard of "Occupy Wall St.", before anyone figured that the scenario presented in that other post was anything other than the ravings of "conspiracy" whackos. ( It's All Coming Together ) | | Wednesday, October 19th, 2011 | | 10:19 am |
The Leftist Loon Wish List
I am going to post this just once. I am doing this for conservation of space, and to keep down the number of hotlinks. Just imagine that this image follows each and every point presented here. ( The Loon Wish List ) Current Mood: amused | | Tuesday, October 18th, 2011 | | 9:58 am |
Birds of a Feather
There is a meme that has been parrotted ever since the end of WW II: that Nazis are the "right", Communists, Socialists, and Liberals are on the "left", and that they are the mortal enemies of one another. You hear it all the time: that the Tea Party is basically the new "Nazis" and "fascists". ( See Who the Real Nazis Support ) Current Mood: amused | | Friday, October 14th, 2011 | | 6:54 pm |
Yet Another Digimon Ripoff
This movie, starring Keith Sutherland, Mirrors started looking real damn familiar from the very first scene. A security guard named Gray Lewis is terrified of his reflection in a Harlem subway station restroom mirror. He pleads for his life, but his reflection cuts his own throat, causing the real Gary to die in the exact same manner. The Keith Sutherland character, Ben Carson, begins seeing reflections of things that aren't there, scenes from the past, and just when his wife is convinced he's just plain nuts, she, too, starts seeing impossible reflections. This comes straight from Digimon Frontier; Mercurymon does the exact same thing: uses mirrors and other reflective surfaces to strike at will. Current Mood: amused | | Friday, October 7th, 2011 | | 8:43 am |
Day Trip Report
Wheeling IslandWent up here with Father as he never likes to go anywhere alone. This advertises itself as one of the biggest and best and biggest hotel-casinos in West Virginia. Definitely lives up to that, and they are quite free with the comps. Got a free meal just for moving to a new seat so some old guy could see the cards better, due to poor vision. All they had running there were some 1/2 no limit Hold 'Em games. Full of old guys, and extremely nitty games. They'd bet 'em if they had 'em, and pass otherwise. If they all pass to you, just bet anything and take it down. If bet into, fold, they had it. It was that obvious, and they never changed even once. Probably stole as much as I won. These were the types that thought A-little was just as good as AK. One old fool raised a $100 with 8♣ 6♣ after I bet $40.00 with A♣ K♣ and three clubs on the board. He should have known better. That's just how it went every time. Paid for the whole trip plus quite a bit extra. Current Mood: cheerful | | Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 | | 8:53 am |
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