Suspend Democracy – Vote Democratic

The stream of outrages and stupidity flowing from the Democratics is approaching ridiculous limits. I can’t keep up with all of them and putting up links to proofs—published videos, articles, and pictures is time consuming.

If you came here from the EH blog, I’m trusting that you respected the Link button’s warning, “CONSERVATIVES ONLY”…you did respect that caution, didn’t you?

I trust that regular readers will have developed their own methods of finding information. Further, I have reached the point in life that I no longer relish an opportunity for persuasive argument. It’s my opinion that the left has become so radicalized that any attempt at having a rational discussion is wasted time.

The listing that follows will be an ongoing log of outrages that caught my attention. They are listed together with enough factual information that you can find the details on your own, should you want to do so. It is in no way comprehensive but does highlight some of the more important and/or subtle occurrences that I believe worth keeping in mind.

26 Sept. 2011. NC Governor Beverly Perdue (D-NC), at a Raleigh, NC Rotary Club luncheon meeting – “Suspend Congressional elections for 2-years”.

14 Sept. 2011. Peter Orszag (D), former Obama administration Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in the “The New Republic” – “Why We Need Less Democracy”.

The Supremes

One of the better illustrations of why elections matter.

Saving the World

This is one of those examples I like to put together as an illustration of the "Theater of the Absurd" which is difficult keep up with these days. Nancy, a California gal, said she was trying the "save the world as we know it." Chester, a Texas gent, did save a big chunk of it.

Can you imagine what Admiral Chester Nimitz might have said if Nancy had corrected him as Barbara Boxer, another California gal, corrected a general some months ago when he respectfully replied, "Yes, Mam?" She wanted him to address her as, "Yes, Senator." One of them was rude, the other was not.

There is one substantial person in this picture.

German Chancellors

The picture of today's German Chancellor in her rain attire got me to thinking what she might look like juxtaposed with another German Chancellor most of us recall. Don't you wonder what is going on between those 4 ears? The book is written about what was going on between 2 of those ears, the other is still playing out and not likely to be nearly so dramatic. But could there again be an Adolf? Of course there could. Beware, my children...be careful who you trust.

The rest of the story in this picture is interesting. The guy on the left was tried and hung; the one on the right was so morally certain of his mission that he shot himself in the head before he was given the chance to explain his performance...then hung.

The Ant

By popular request,

The ANT
AND THE
GRASSHOPPER
This one is a little different ......
Two Different Versions .....
Two Different Morals


OLD VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and
laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter,
so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:

Be responsible for yourself!



MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house
and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN and ABC
show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with
a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is
allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah
with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing,
'It's Not Easy Being Green ..'

ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We shall overcome.

Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright
has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake.

President Obama condemns the ant
and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with
Larry King that the ant has
gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper,
and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity
& Anti-Grasshopper Act
retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of
green bugs and,
having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper .

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize and ramshackle the once prosperous and peaceful neighborhood.

The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest
of the free world with it.

MORAL OF THE STORY:


Be careful how you vote in 2012


I've sent this to you because
I believe that you are an ant!

You may wish to pass this on to other ants , but don't bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it anyway.

Adios

A Leftist View of 9-11 - part 3

Tuesday’s blowout election for Weiner’s former seat, New York 9 is probably a good indication that there is a storm gathering. You remember Anthony Weiner from last May-June, don’t you? And that Florida Airline’s “Hot Dog” fares? Great New Yawk shtick.

Drudge’s Wednesday headline (above) hammered it home. It was the first time since 1923, or 88-years, that New York 9 switched parties—they elected an “R” by a 9-point margin in a district that is about 80% registered “D”. Talk about the ground trembling--that's actually a 20-point shift in a district that favored our "D" prez by 11-points in 2008. Add the switches of the VA governor, the NJ governor, Teddy Kennedy’s MA senate seat, and a Nevada 2 red/blue switch, and one can palpably feel the 2012 storm gathering.

Nevertheless, there are a few more things I want to capture here that came to light during my short-term, rocky relationship with a Class of 1965 lefty. His favorite web sites tended to be Truthout and Common Dreams. At the lower portion of the Common Dreams page are several boxes divided into many more links. It’s about as good an aggregation of this kind of stuff as I’ve found…might be worth a look just to keep yourself advised of what these folks are thinking and doing.

I haven’t included any conservative links as I believe you probably already have your own favorites and are keeping informed through them. I don’t think they are as numerous as the leftist sites and they don’t appear to be as vigorously linked together.

Adios

A Leftist View of 9-11 - part 2

“Youth ages. Immaturity is outgrown. Ignorance can be educated, drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.” Aristophanes, 5th Century B.C.

Krugman’s piece (see Part 1) drew a lot of fire Monday and Tuesday…and Donald Rumsfeld publicly cancelled his NYT subscription describing Krugman’s piece as “repugnant.” I would have thought he had cancelled his subscription years ago.

The picture of Krugman with President Bush is a bit of a surprise, given the amount vitriol President Bush has endured from the man over the years. Krugman is a short man…about 5’7”. That old Randy Newman song is playing in my head about now.

Jousting recently with my 1965 Highlander Facebook former “friend” provided one useful thing…a window into the world he uses for his sources of “information.” It’s a collection of linked blogs and websites, possibly managed by many of the same people, most of them pretending to offer erudite opinions, but generally copying one another and stumbling over their own pretense. One only needs to read a couple of paragraphs to recognize the repetitive drivel.

It’s likely that these sites are feeding the growing outrage that tends to boil over on our streets in violent ways, for vague reasons. If you know why these gangs of vandals do what they do, you’re ahead of me. Anarchists, I think they call themselves. They do some damage, get their skulls cracked, are arrested and hauled away. When they’re done about all I’ve seen is the results of stupidity and bad behavior. Maybe that’s the point.

Anyway, if you are like me…relatively ignorant of aims of the far left, yet somewhat troubled by your ignorance…read on in Part 3.

Adios

A Leftist View of 9-11 Part 1

This Paul Krugman op-ed appeared in Sunday’s New York Times. It speaks for itself.

Of interest is that Krugman declined to permit any comments from others. I don’t recall seeing this done before.
Generally, I'm willing to add almost anyone as a Facebook "friend" as long as we have some kind of common connection or our paths crossed at sometime in our lives. I have yet to "unfriend" anyone in the Facebook space, but I have been "unfriended" by 2 former Highlanders I never knew at EH all those years ago. One was a 1961 and the other, a 1965.

Leftist politics was at the root of both events. Apparently neither of my former “friends” had the fortitude to deal with the fact that I am a conservative who is unwilling to sit quietly and accept leftist propaganda as gospel, as Mr. Krugman’s “no comments” decision seems to illustrate. One “friend” took exception to my occasional inclusion of a piece in the blog that reflected my conservative nature. After one (of several) particularly snarky message from him strongly suggesting that I not use “our” Highlander blog for any political content, I felt compelled to remind him that the blog is mine to do with as I wish. Others are welcome to contribute to it or take what they wish from it, or just ignore it. I’m ambivalent about it’s acceptance, although I’m flattered if you like it.

Furthermore, I thought it useful to remind him that I didn’t know him 50-years ago at EH where he was a moderately visible elder Highlander, nor do I know him now.

The other former Facebook friend is apparently an unbridled leftist who kept feeding me a steady flow of so-called “news” stories taken from a collection of leftist websites he frequents. I or anyone was invited to comment on his posts. However, it was quickly evident that neither he, nor his other leftist friends wanted to debate anything rationally. The invective-filled flurry of retorts to pretty much anything I posted clearly illustrated an intolerant far left dogma existed there, rather than a rational debate. However, it was sometimes fun to pitch a bone in just to see the resulting frenzy—they were that predictable. Of course, as most Texas boys can attest, even zapping ants with a magnifying glass out on the walk can only hold one’s interest just so long.

My 1965 Highlander former “friend” pitched one of his stink bombs out on Facebook a couple of days ago and apparently left his computer for the day, leaving 4 of his weakest “activists” behind to carry on the “discussion.” All they could muster was a string of invectives calling me about every nasty thing they could pull from their limited vocabularies. Not once did they address the issue, so intent were they in hurling their silly invectives. I don't think I've encountered such low and childish communication since Jr. Hi. Perhaps, not even there as I was a big kid who the smaller ones generally wouldn't provoke.

Now, for a large part of my professional career I was the principal wordsmith for a medium-size company, charged with communicating with my peers at many of the largest corporations in the world. In that role, I learned to be careful about what I wrote and if I were angry, to put those responses off until tomorrow in order to see if I still felt as strongly about the matter then as I did at the time. More often than not, I didn't, so I saved myself from some potentially embarrassing attention to ill-chosen words. And angry people can sometimes become solid friends later on.

Hope this piece hasn’t rambled too much…there is more to say that I will put into a couple of follow-on posts.

Continued in Part 2

Adios