It is because of this [feeling like death warmed over] that I have not posted on a consistent basis and have let down my
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“Right Jabs For January 28, 2012.” By Curmudgeon, Political Clown Parade, 1/28/12.
15 May 2012
OK, that may seem a little silly, but hear me out. We are not just in a fight for liberty and the founding principles. We are in an existential fight for all of Western Civilization. Sure, it would be nice to rollback 100 years of progressive nonsense and return to our (possibly imagined) Constitutional roots, but there’s more than that. Between the collectivists and the muslims, millenia of civilization (back to Homer, kids) are in …
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12 May 2012
It’s terribly unfortunate that, out of an entire four-year cycle of politics, we’ve not seen the national economy recover in any substantial way. That’s a long time for it to be languishing the way it’s been. But it affords us a unique educational opportunity because we’ve been able to watch two presidential administrations — one archetypically liberal, running for re-election, and the other one whatever passes for “conservative” in this day & age, and not …
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6 May 2012
When it comes to Kerodin’s Convention in DC, I am in. From the first day they passed the seat belt law in Colorado, 1986, or thereabouts, I knew it would come to this. I chaffed at the first sign of a government obsessed with my safety and knew that one day it would grow to the point that something would have to be done about it. It never stops at common sense, once they snare you …
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5 May 2012
Constitutional scholars do not impress me. I have listened to any number of them, including Representative Trey Gowdy, who recently ripped Kathleen Sebelius over the Obamacare issue. Okay, that was good and I enjoyed this video of the confrontation. Refreshing as it was, and instructive on the absolute ignorance of the Constitution and the Supreme Court and any measure of weighing Constitutionality against a bill put before congress that the Obama Administration has, even at the …
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1 May 2012
Today the world is different. Our nation is different. As Americans we are being pulled in different directions, called on by society to remain silent and acquiescent to the great ramrod of collectivism, or asked to risk everything for principles and ideals that are at the heart of Americanism, but no longer supported by our government(s). Indeed, to demand that the government recognize and operate under these very ideals upon which it is based is considered …
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30 Apr 2012
Now here is a picture that’s worth a zillion words… Look what’s going on there now. Green line is retraction incidents, measured in “notices” per 100,000 publications in scientific journals. Now, you could argue there may be problems with measuring it this way…but nevertheless, if the plotting is shaped like this, it’s gotta mean something. And the line more or less gels with public perception of the problems with science across time, if it doesn’t …
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13 Apr 2012
Here’s the problem as I see it, whenever I attempt to communicate some ideas to the readers of this blog, I run into a problem. It is not that Romney supports guns and Obama wants to take them away, it is that every politician wants to take them away, either from an ideological police state mentality, or from a law and order, “make it safer for our guys, the government guys”, point of view. Does …
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10 Apr 2012
The announcement of Santorum only confirms what we all knew, that no matter who got the GOP nomination there would be a big-government liberal in the White House after the 2012 election. The announcement only sets the field. Santorum would have been no different, in my estimation, none of them would. I know I have been through this before, but there is no, none, zero chance that any government stooge will ever do anything to …
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7 Apr 2012
So the kid’s here for spring break, of which today is the last day. The fiancee and I are driving him back to Nevada today so he can resume school. We had a blast with the go-karts and the trip to the shooting range, where I lost my .40 S&W virginity and managed a decently tight grouping in spite of the wicked recoil on the Beretta. Also upgraded his home-built with a new 2GB video …
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5 Apr 2012
It occurs to me that the best of us seek the justification of the Constitution to act, to not appear lawless and out of control. We seek some sort of sanctification, legitimization in our desire for liberty. We are not unreasonable about this, we don’t demand the destruction of our government, only that it would work the way it has promised to work. We want to be able to count on something. In the face of that …
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Bunny, I hope you feel better soon. In the meantime I have a question for you. What happens if Obama gets elected again? I read blogs, listen to conservative talkers, tv and radio, people saying how bad it will be. But my question is, “what are you going to do about it”. Tea partiers, talkers, etc. go thru a long condemnation of Obama but have nothing to say about what to about it except vote. If the election is the most important in the history of the republic and you know that there is a 50/50 chance you will lose, will you wait until the day of the election, wake up and find you lost the election, then hope for the next election? Conservatives are careful to say no to violence but liberals don’t. They get their unions, blacks, etc. to intimidate whites. How would the founders have responded to the current situation in our country. Would they wait and vote until they realized they lost, then what?
Thanks, Alex. Fortunately, I’m not the one feeling under the weather. Knock on wood, I’ve escaped illness the last three winters, if memory serves me. Clean living, obviously.
Good questions. I have toyed with the idea of a short legal article on treason, subversion, rebellion, insurrection, and revolution. The Framers were ok with the idea of armed rebellion against government that betrayed the Constitution, but that doesn’t solve the problem of the government in question being unhappy with any rebellion.
The problem that your questions reveal is the simple fact that, even though this IS a critical election, there is no revolutionary consciousness, as the commie bastard slime balls would phrase it. When you have so many Republicans clustering around the bland, formulaic Romney weather vane that’s a pretty good indicator that anyone who gets out there to lead the charge to Conservative Valhalla (pre-demise version) is going to fight whatever battle by himself. I knew an officer in the Army Reserve who’d been an infantry platoon leader in the Philippines. He set off across an open area expecting his men to be behind him. When he got to the other side of that area he looked back and they were all way back there watching him.
The entire Western world simply WILL not wake up to huge problems facing the West posed by immigration, fiscal insanity, attacks on free speech, and resentful minorities who, at the very best, have no intention to assimilate and embrace Anglo-European culture. Nationalist, salvationist political parties are starved of oxygen by the European electorate and, as I’ve said, the so-called right has a voracious hunger for blancmange. Here and there.
Lawrence Auster is very good on this. The problems we face are problems within us and that politicians mouth nonsense is only a reflection of our decay. A Hungarian fellow, I think, said the same thing. The problem posed by Obama is not that he is an oddball Marxist revolutionary with fewer papers than a pedigree spaniel but rather that the American people were so stupid as to elect such an oddity, OWTTE.
Americans have been enthusiastically giving up their freedom since the passage of the 16th Amendment. That has never bothered the mass of them and that the forthcoming election is a crucial one is yet more remote from their concerns.
Democracy has succeeded as all have in the past. It has given Americans what all people yearn for — a free ride. Revolutionary consciousness to follow. I go back to Solzhenitsyn, as I often do, who warned that if the West did not wake up it would experience the “pitiless crowbar of events.” Nothing less than that appears to be sufficient to arouse the Europeans to the perils they face. For our part, we just saw the latest State of the Union address where Obama made only a fleeting reference to the deficit and/or the debt, if I have right. Here we are on the brink of a FINANCIAL crisis, never mind a political one, and the problem is ignored in the “president’s” speech about the state . . . of . . . the . . . union.
And it’s not for lack of exposure to explanations of all of this. Americans seem hell bent on going down in a state of ignorance and complacency. Davy Crocketts they ain’t.
“It’s like my uncle Lou used to say ‘If I felt a little worse, I’d be dead. If I felt a little better, it wouldn’t be me’.”
Glad to hear you’re not feeling to sick, Bunny.
Well said about what’s going on.
I get sick to my stomach when I think about o getting elected again.
The masses are just stupid enough to do it.
I keep praying every day they’ll get some sense.
God help us.
Thank you kindly, Bunni. Are we related?
I was dismayed when Clinton was reelected and flummoxed when Obama was elected. Reelecting Obama would be what opens the door to a true Steven King landscape. We glimpsed a portion of that landscape with the clueless Bush 43 whose inexplicable — and quite pathetic — big government, multicultural conservatism belied his surface patriotic, “normalcy” bona fides. As for his strategic vision . . . well, let’s just say he must have suffered from one too many hard carrier landings.
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ColBunny wrote,
“…. well, let’s just say he must have suffered from one too many hard carrier landings.”
Chuckle, Chuckle. But, Fouad Ajami, professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, and an adjunct research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution DID say on CNN that Bush43 had done a “cunning” thing by invading Iraq. This was early on, but after beginning of insurgency, I believe. And I think it was CNN, because ‘twould not have signified for me if it’d been Fox News. It’s probably Google-ble. Enlightening article, btw. Another time, another topic: Obama-fatigue.
Iraq never made much sense to me. The intelligence seemed clear that there were WMD and it seems equally clear that the Russians transported a lot of SOMETHING into Syria in the run up to the invasion. The invasion also scared the daylights out of the Iranians which was all to the good.
However, if it was bad for Iraq to have WMD all the more awful for Iran to have them. Ergo, a “comprehensive” solution was in order but none was proposed. (Only in the realm of illegal immigration do the iron laws of politics call for comprehensive solutions.)
When Bush went crazy over “nation building” it just turned into a stupid but deadly adventure.
Agreed. Sadly, no “comprehensive” understanding of the religious schism.
We Indians plan ahead 7 generations; the Chinese have yet to decide about the impact of the French Revolution; and just as sure as gravity, the Iraqis could have built their nation sans U.S.Occupation.
I don’t know, actually. It just seemed that it was a race between forming a government and American casualties,4.000+. ‘Twas the gambler’s mindset: “just one more throw.” “just a few more American soldiers’ lives….” Thanks.
I should probably be more skeptical about the WMD story. Saddam was in fact working on uranium enrichment with calutrons some years before but Bush’s unexplained switch from WMDs to nation building after no WMDs were found was duplicitous makes me doubt now the WMD justification more than initially. I was too hasty about saying I thought there was some intel before the invasion. I do believe that the Russians helped to transport something out of Iraq so that does lend credence to the WMD claim.
I could see you idea of the gambler’s mentality if there hadn’t been a surreptitious volte face on Bush’s part taking us into the nation building nightmare. There was nothing gradual about the switch.
Secretary Of State Colin Powell’s “If we break it…,” possibly the epitome of diffidence, considering American expectations of statesmanship & stewardship of U.S. vital interests; and finally, former President Ford’s come-lately-to-the war table observation that Bush43 erred in using WMD as the “excuse” for going into Iraq to depose Saddam are, undoubtedly, of monumental usefulness to the current Administration–that’s why we call it ‘history.’ For HIS courageous timing, Fouad Ajami should be allowed a chance to say more to this generation.
Regards.
FYI. Professor Fouad Ajami appeared as one of 4 guest panelists on The Charlie Rose Show Feb 6th, PBS;
I caught the replay 2/7, on Bloomberg News. It can be viewed via video on The Charlie Rose Show, I believe. Ajami’s views and also his demeanor were fascinating. Watch another panelist disagree with him. Another panelist, Prof Josh Landis, University of Oklahoma, expert on Syria, worth a listen. Good health and viewing.