Rant for the Day

Charles, our Lizardroid Master at Little Green Footballs, posted this quote:

So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research, and then some, fundamentally changing – remember, those great progressive doctors are the ones who brought us Eugenics. It was the progressive movement and it was science. Let’s put science truly in her place. If evolution is right, why don’t we just help out evolution? That was the idea.

— Glenn Beck

The ideology of Eugenics was in practical effect a rejection of the evolutionary process. (And as some may argue, a rejection of the actual will of God the Creator.)

Instead of allowing human life to develop over time in accordance to a natural process (of as some would argue, the way the Creator wanted it), the Eugenicists would instead assume the role of God in the process and personally direct the development of human life themselves. The Eugenicists would determine who may or may not procreate and pass on their genes to the next generation.

In practical effect the ideology of Eugenics reduced the legal and moral status of ordinary human beings to that of livestock. It was simply another pseudoscientific attempt to justify the recreation of a master-slave society, where in this case the Eugenicists would assume the role of ranchers who would breed human beings as if they were mere cattle.

Historically, the ideology of Eugenics fell out of favor among "Progressives" in 1945 when it was discovered that someone actually tried to put it into practice.

The ideology of Eugenics was just another attempted excuse for the recreation of tyranny. But as they used to teach us at the Benning School for Boys, the maximum effective range of an excuse is zero.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Rant of the Day

Zombie over at Little Green Footballs quoted from a rant by Leftie twit Henry Rollins:

Meanwhile, over at Vanity Fair, Henry Rollins is on a roll:

"I have been reading material at conservative sites and the content contributors can’t seem to get over the fact that Britain is in love with president Obama and his wife, Michelle. There are stupid cartoons of Ms. Obama wanting to “fist bump” with Queen Elizabeth, assorted whining about the fuss P.M. Gordon Brown made over the president and the first lady. I think it really gets to these frustrated sub-literates that millions of people all over the world love Barack Obama. They remember clearly the last several years when their born-again Texan went abroad and how well all that went. Perhaps some of these mouth-breathers are reading this screed now. Hey, knuckle-dragger! Isn’t it a downer that president Obama will be received exceedingly well all over the world and perhaps help the entire planet become a more peaceful and prosperous sphere?"

Remember the days when Vanity Fair was a respectable publication?

Well I have to admit that Vanity Fair was never really on my reading list. And I will admit that English was not my favorite subject in high school. But I can say that I have more published articles on legal and moral issues in print (in THE RESISTER under the pseudonym of R. Hemmerding) than Die Grosse Null could even be bothered to contribute to the Harvard Law Review while he sat at the president's desk of it.

So in my specific case the name-calling engaged in by Rollins has no basis in reality. Furthermore, I have actually read on my own initiative the actual military and political history of the Western World and not the fantasies of frustrated tenured Marxists with delusions of mental and moral superiority.

I recognize as an unevadable fact of reality that as long as someone wishes to impose his will on another, or take something from another person by force, there will be violence. And as long as there are groups or nations that seek to impose their will on other groups or nations by force, there will be wars.

Peace, Freedom, and Security are in practical effect, the absence of predatory individuals, groups, and nations. That is to say, the absence of enemies.

(I've noticed that some people insist on not understanding this. But I digress.)

If Die Grosse Null were to actually carry out the policies that he advocates the result would not be peace, love, and happy chocolates on a national or worldwide scale, but simply more violence. With the possibility of Second Civil War here in the United States or a Third World War.

Henry Rollins' belief in his own mental and moral superiority is simply an illusion. Unfortunately it is an illusion that does not require the deliberate misuse of drugs to create.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Thought for the Day

If there is one myth that I would really like to bury, it is the myth that National Socialism is a right wing ideology, and that the NSDAP and those in the present day who seek to emulate them are right wing parties.

Quote:

"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." --Adolf Hitler

(Speech of May 1, 1927. Quoted by Toland, 1976, p. 306)

President Barack Obama could repeat the above statement word for word and no one, in the usual leftist audience, or the Main Stream Media, would call him out on it.

And here are some of the planks of the 25 point program of the NSDAP:

7. We demand that the State shall make it its primary duty to provide a livelihood for its citizens. If it should prove impossible to feed the entire population, foreign nationals (non-citizens) must be deported from the Reich.

10. It must be the first duty of every citizen to perform physical or mental work. The activities of the individual must not clash with the general interest, but must proceed within the framework of the community and be for the general good.

We demand therefore:

11. The abolition of incomes unearned by work.

The breaking of the slavery of interest

12. In view of the enormous sacrifices of life and property demanded of a nation by any war, personal enrichment from war must be regarded as a crime against the nation. We demand therefore the ruthless confiscation of all war profits.

13. We demand the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations (trusts).

14. We demand profit-sharing in large industrial enterprises.

15. We demand the extensive development of insurance for old age.

17. We demand a land reform suitable to our national requirements, the passing of a law for the expropriation of land for communal purposes without compensation; the abolition of ground rent, and the prohibition of all speculation in land.

18. We demand the ruthless prosecution of those whose activities are injurious to the common interest. Common criminals, usurers, profiteers, etc., must be punished with death, whatever their creed or race.

Gosh, doesn't that sound familiar?

The myth that National Socialism is a right wing ideology basically originated in the basement of the Kremlin and has continued to be repeated by those who are embarrassed about their German ideological relatives.

Seriously, if the Left were seriously and openly called out on this they would either have to drop their beliefs or bust their collective backsides to rehabilitate Hitler and the NSDAP.

Or they would just jump up and down and call us a bunch of liars.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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News Busted

And here I thought that John Mellencamp was a talentless jerk.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

“If the Republicans can’t break out of being the right wing party of big government, then I think you would see a third party movement in 2012,”

-- Newt Gingrich, March 31, 2009

The Republican Party needs to face up to the fact that politics as usual is no longer an option. The Republican Party has systematically compromised, appeased, and openly bought off the other side too many times. This had the effect of strengthening the other side and harming us as a nation.

It the Wiemar Republic the practice of parties making deals with each other was called cattle trading. In present day America we call this bipartisanship. And like the Germans between the wars we are now facing the rise of a totalitarian collectivist political cult with its own divinely appointed leader.

If the Republican Party doesn't clean up its act then we as rational citizens will have no choice but to start a new party if we want to peacefully make changes and restore a rational system of government.

What are our questions on this block of instruction?
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Thought for the Day

Indoctrination in Marxism is no substitute for proper education and experience in management, in fact it has the exact opposite effect.
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Thoughts for the Day

Several thoughts occurred to me this morning:

What we appear to be going through is a home invasion robbery carried out on a national scale and over the course of decades. Barring a Pinochet-style military coup or a general uprising we are effectively as helpless as the unarmed victims of the home invaders.

The other thought is that the Democratic Party is effectively an industrial scale version of the Manson Family with brief cases and postgraduate degrees instead of old kitchen knives.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Update.

Let me rephrase that...

The Democratic Party is effectively an industrial scale version of the Manson Family with postgraduate degrees and paramilitary swat teams instead of LSD and old kitchen knives.

There...that works better, doesn't it?
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Quote of the Day

Today's quote of the day is from Mark Urbin's Political Signature Quote Page 15:

"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism"

-- Karl Marx

In practical reality peace (as well as freedom and security) is the absence of Socialists, and all other Self-Appointed Superior Beings who want to use other people as their livestock.

Believe it or not, there are still a bunch of morons out there who still refuse to get it.

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Announcement

Mr. Welch continues to add to the list:

1251. Even the rules disagree, my character can still drown.
1252. I cannot take the following as my favored enemies: Southpaws, Mother-in-law or Keynesian Economists.
1255. Splitting the atom at will is not an acceptable super power.
1256. ‘Ignore the metaplot’ is also not an acceptable super power.
1257. No, the answer to the problem is not to make a gatling gun out of bazookas.
1258. Can’t base my character off a smurf.
1259. Even if I could base my character off a smurf, Ghurka Smurf was not a real smurf.
1261. If the villain’s three room lair holds over one hundred brutes, can’t just tip off the Fire Marshal.
1263. Can’t blame it on my gun.
1264. Will not retrofit my Federation Starship with fuses.
1266. I will stop referring to my rogue as a freelance subterranean locksmith.
1267. The lockpicking kit must be more than a sawed off shotgun.
1269. Even if the guy I based my character off was famous for doing it, I can’t kill eight guys with one bullet.
1270. Weapon Focus: Nukes is not a real feat.
1272. My Paladin can be charged with sexual harassment if he doesn’t watch exactly where he lays on hands.
1275. Will not reanimate dead familiars just to keep them around for sentimental reasons.

We now return you to your scheduled reality.
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Thought for the Day

Idea for bumper sticker:

CHICAGO IS SHORT A VILLAGE IDIOT

Let's just say that I got a little tired of seeing those "Village in Texas" stickers during the Bush Administration.
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Thought for the Day

I get the distinct impression that Die Grosse Null (The Big Zero) has fouled up more times in his first two months in office than the average Republican president fouls up in two terms. What's worse, Die Grosse Null's errors tend to be those which should be easily avoidable.

Back during the 2000 presidential election, Steven Michael Barry, the editor and publisher of THE RESISTER told everyone to vote for Al Gore. The theory behind this "endorsement" was that he expected the Gore Administration to become so incompetent, corrupt, and just plain evil, that it would provoke a Pinochet-style coup d'etat and the commencement of a campaign to shut down the Left in general.

No, I didn't vote for Gore. But I have the horrible feeling that SMB may have made a valid prediction.

This isn't advocacy. I'm just waiting for the other combat boot to drop.
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Thought for the Day

I just had a horrible thought:

If you asked a Special Needs Child if they would want to deliberately cause harm to another person they would most likely say no.

If you asked a "Progressive" (such as a regular at the Daily Kos or the Huffington Post) if they would want to deliberately cause harm to another person they would most likely say yes and then tear off on a hate-filled rant as to why.

It would then appear that a Special Needs Child has a better understanding of basic ethics than any so-called Progressive.

Horrible thought, isn't it?
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Announcement

I have found it necessary it enable the moderation function on comments.

Someone forgot or has chosen to ignore the fact that they were banned from commenting on this blog.

We have to wonder what part of "goodbye moron" they did not understand.

But then the idiot in question made every effort to demonstrate its refusal to understand.

And one final point: Those who would by force use other persons as a means to further their own material and spiritual goals are nothing less than enemies of human kind. Which is also to say vermin fit solely for extermination. To accurately describe the policies and behavior of such creatures is not demonization. It is simply telling the truth. Demonization is what the enemies of human kind have done to create the illusion of moral legitimacy to the systematic acts of slavery and murder carried out by those who have wrongfully called themselves progressives.

To Hell with them and to Hell with those who defend them.
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Quote of the Day

“You can’t do a show about good and evil. Because then somebody has to be responsible.”

-- Dirk Benedict, Interviewed in NRO.

If there is one thing the Self-Appointed Superior Being hates it is the thought of being held responsible. Just like those dumbass Donks and their funding of the AIG bonuses.

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IDEA OF THE DAY

Instead of spending the "stimulus" money on various construction projects (which will only have to be repaired or demolished later) why not cut out the middlemen and deposit the funds directly into the bank accounts of every officer of the Democratic Party down to the level of precinct captain?

Questions?
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Thought for the Day

If I attend a tea party (Probably the one at the state capitol on tax day) I think I'll make a sign that references both Ayn Rand and Wang Chung:

EVERYBODY SHRUG TONIGHT

What are your questions on this concept?
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A Old Review Of ATLAS SHRUGGED

This book review was originally published in Volume 2, Number 3 of THE RESISTER. Price and book service contact information should no longer be accurate.




Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand. Penguin Group, Penguin Books USA, Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014, USA. ISBN 0-451-17192-6 Paperback. vii + 1084 pages. 1957. $7.99.

Reviewed by
D. van Oort


Atlas Shrugged is the opus magnum of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, and is the first work of fiction to be reviewed in these pages. Its theme is the role of the mind in the affairs of man. Atlas Shrugged illustrates this dramatically and memorably by showing just why, for the first time in history, the men of ability should go on strike against the advocates of incompetence and the purveyors of envy, and what will happen when they do.

"Who is John Galt?" Throughout Ayn Rand's brilliant expose of the decline of the industrialized west disguised as a novel, this is the question that pervades every page. "Who is John Galt?" is not a question, it is a smear spit out by every incompetent, every altruist, every hater of intellect who demands to know how competent men dare to be competent, how selfish men dare to despise altruism, and how intelligent men dare hold the willfully ignorant in contempt. "Who is John Galt?" is the unspoken demand by the mob that men of competence, ability and intelligence serve them as slaves. "Who is John Galt?" is the sneer muttered by stock-yard animals who cringe before the individual who denies the collectivist-altruist premise, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

The heroes of Atlas Shrugged answer the altruist-collectivist demand for their servitude by refusing them the one thing the altruist-collectivists cannot shackle--their minds. This resistance is beautifully stated by the hero of Atlas Shrugged, John Galt, when the collectivists demand that he return to "do something" to save a world they are willfully destroying:

"We are evil, according to your morality. We have chosen not to harm you any longer. We are useless, according to your economics. We have chosen not to exploit you any longer. We are dangerous and to be shackled, according to your politics. We have chosen not to endanger you, nor to wear the shackles any longer. We are only an illusion, according to your philosophy. We have chosen not to blind you any longer and have left you free to face reality--the reality you wanted, the world as you see it now, a world without mind."

Atlas Shrugged is set in a despicable near future, one much nearer today than when the book was first published in 1957. From the beginning, Atlas Shrugged was denounced and slandered by critics from both the socialist liberal appeaser and conservative Buckley-ite compromiser schools. Precisely because its theme is the role of the mind; because its scenario is a world increasingly of, by, and for the mindless; because it illustrates so beautifully the types of ideologies that lead to power blackouts in New York City and the creativity that leads to the discovery of new types of energy; because it predicted events and policies that have occurred since, and because it is the story of the most intractable of resisters on strike against those very ideologies, events and policies that are choking the life out of us today--this book is not dated. Indeed, it is prophetic. Atlas Shrugged is coming of age with a vengeance.

Throughout the novel, John Galt, defying every disgusting premise of altruism and collectivism travels the country on a mission of sedition to recruit true capitalists to his strike. In response to demands that he return with "the men of the mind" he defiantly states:

"All the men who have vanished, the men you hated, yet dreaded to lose, it is I who have taken them away from you. Do not attempt to find us. We do not choose to be found. Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don't. Do not beg us to return. We are on strike, we, the men of the mind."

As with any legitimate work of fiction, Atlas Shrugged projects an ideal. So why would the ideal productive genius, Francisco d'Anconia, destroy his copper mines and become a useless playboy? Why would a brilliant young philosopher, Ragnar Danneskjold, sail the high seas as a pirate, waylaying ships transporting looted capital to various "People's States"? Why would the most brilliant of them all, John Galt, whose greatest invention is looted by the unworthy heirs to the once-great company he worked for, wage a clandestine war against the world by removing the men most hated by it? Why would the heroine, Dagny Taggart, after struggling against the combined efforts of the world to destroy her transcontinental railroad, vow to kill this man, and upon breaching the strikers' security, meet him and fall in love with him?

And what kind of new ideology would they forge from the ashes of two thousand years of mysticism, altruism and collectivism? What will be the greatest gift they give to the world, they, the ideal who are only concerned with themselves? This is their gift:

"We have granted you everything you demanded of us, we who had always been the givers, but have only now understood it. We have no demands to present to you, no terms to bargain about, no compromise to reach. You have nothing to offer us. WE DO NOT NEED YOU."

Atlas Shrugged is a long book, a great read for a long winter. But be warned; Atlas Shrugged is much like these pages it is reviewed on, because not everyone can handle it, and not everyone would like for you to read it. In spite of that, it is proper that Atlas Shrugged repeatedly tops the Book of the Month Club's bestseller list, because the type of person who reads this book is the type who makes his decisions on his own, for his own reasons, and for his own benefit.

If you have reason to seek a real literary masterpiece, and if you think you can benefit from a genuine ideological challenge, follow the tale of a few great men and women in a mindless world of "People's States" and cringing appeasers, as they launch the ultimate resistance movement for the ultimate reason, and stop the motor of the world.

Atlas Shrugged will reward you like no other book known to this reviewer. It will do so with entertainment, suspense, one hell of a premise, and a few years worth of things to think about.

But don't take my word for it. Judge for yourself.

Atlas Shrugged may be ordered from: Second Renaissance Books, 143 West St/PO Box 1988, New Milford, CT 06776. 1-800-729-6149 (orders only).

Thought for the Day

The basic goal of those who wrongfully insist on calling themselves Progressives is to turn a human being into something other than a human being. This usually has the practical effect of being lethal. In spite of the demonstrated toxicity of the behavior of self-styled Progressives the self-styled Progressives insist on calling their actions good. Self-styled Progressives are clearly a hazard to human life and we need to identify and deal with them as such. Self-styled Progressives insist on calling this evil.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

"In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail."

-- Phillip K. Dick, Solar Lottery (1955)
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Old Stuff

Posting links to old articles in no particular order.

You Too Can Be A Mass Murderer!

The Doctor Is In.

Rant For The Day (October 24, 2004)

Answering A Socialist Twit.

What Does The Left Want?

"Shouldn't You Be Frying Something?" (Seriously, our present Socialist rulers make the Irkans look competent.)

Loud and Rude Rant of the Day.

Define Insanity.

Someone Asked A Dumb Question.

Rant Of The Day (September 3, 2006)

Quote Of The Day (December 13, 2005)

Quote Of The Day (May 13, 2005)

This Is Sick

Thought For The Day (March 17, 2005)

Rant Of The Day (December 20, 2004)

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Thought for the Day

Peace is the absence of enemies. This is never achieved by pretending that an enemy is not an enemy.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Carl Pham had an interesting idea:

I bet if the entire Obama Administration and Democratic Congressional Leadership were sentenced to hang on December 1, 2009, if the stock market were not above 9000 and unemployment were not below 7%, they would become raging tax-cutting pro-business libertarians overnight.

I'm afraid that I would have to disagree.

To those who have adopted the ethical and spiritual mode of parasitism, power over the productive population is an absolute moral necessity.

I cannot repeat and emphasize this enough: For the Left POWER IS LIFE!

Surrendering power is in effect committing suicide and is therefore unthinkable. Faced with a deadline and a dance at the end of rope the parasitic master class will make every effort to identify and destroy the mechanism of their scheduled demise. The only way they will release a lever of power is if we pry their cold and dead fingers from it.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

(Hat Tip to the Instapundit)

Thought for the Day

I just had an idea.

Instead of having a tea party on April 15th, our annual tax day, let us instead have a Grape Kool-Aid party. Firstly to acknowledge the intimate connection between the ruling Democratic Party and the People's Temple. Secondly to acknowledge that the ruling Democratic Party and the Federal Government is now headed by a messianic socialist who is now leading his party and our nation to destruction. And thirdly as an open invitation to the ruling Democratic Party to simply GO AWAY! PERMANENTLY!

Grape Kool-Aid can be served at Tax Day demonstrations. Alternatively, packets of Grape Kool-Aid can anonymously slipped under the windshield wipers of cars displaying Obama stickers or into the mail slots and mailboxes of homes that still display Obama yard signs. (I live next door to one.) Again as an invitation to go away.

What are your questions on this suggestion?
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Quote of the Day

Dr. John Ray brings us the following quote:


"I believe that President Roosevelt has chosen the right path. We are dealing with the greatest social problem ever known. Millions of unemployed must get their jobs back. This cannot be left to private initiative."

-- Joseph Goebbels, National Socialist Propagandist, 1933


But try to point out the connection between National Socialism and the present policies of the Democratic Party and you will be called a liar. (Speaking from personal experience.)

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The left's debate style

The debate style of the left is pretty consistent.

Rational Adult: "Let's discuss topic A."
Leftist: "You're wrong."
RA: "How am I wrong? Let's review these valid facts pertaining to topic A."
L: "You're wrong."
RA: "Let's review this second set of valid facts pertaining to topic A, and please explain why I'm wrong."
L: "You're a fascist."

You have to give the leftist credit for at least being consistent. Ignore the facts, stick to your emotion based viewpoint, and then dehumanize your opponent.
A classic strategy used skillfully by certain groups in history called…oh you know and so does the leftist who deliberately dehumanizes his opponents with the label they see every time they look in a mirror.

Definition

Progressive: A would-be tin horn dictator with delusions of godhood.
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Anthropogenic global warming Luddites

I go on a long rant against the anti-science Cult of Algore.

Meanwhile, Across the Galaxy...

Ellen Tigh made an interesting comment about the relationship between Bill Adama and Saul Tigh.

This YouTube video suddenly came to mind.



Comments?
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Thought for the Day

Those who believe that they can do no wrong are automatically wrong.
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Fortune Cookie of the Day

From Lee Ann Chin on February 12, 2009:

"Ask not what your fortune cookie can do for you but what you can do for your fortune cookie."
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Thought for the Day

I think that those who continue to advocate Socialism should be shown what Socialism really looks like from the victim's point of view. The most efficient way of doing this is to fire one round into the Socialist's head in the old Soviet style.
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Thought for the Day

Journalism has become the practical equivalent of perjury carried out on a national scale.

Perjury in a capital murder case may lead to the wrongful execution of an innocent individual or the wrongful release of an actual murderer and the subsequent murder of additional victims.

The consequences of perjury in the field of national politics may require an accountant to keep track of the bodies.
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And Then...

Here's an example of the appallingly bad placement of a advertisement.



Skip ahead to 2 minutes and 20 seconds if you want to avoid seeing someone (fictionally) blow their own brains out.
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An Update

A new entry to the Memoirs of Allen Keller is up on MOPU.

There is also the inaugural address of the (unfortunately fictional) President John Andrew March.

That is all.
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Motivation for the Day

An alternative if you're into Latin should be:

"ULTIMA RATIO CIVITUM"

If you think I got that wrong just drop a comment here.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the socialist rag of the Twin Cities, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Here's their link.

They're trying to spin it as a good thing. (Gosh, what a surprise!):

Minnesota's largest newspaper will try to use bankruptcy to restructure its debt and lower its labor costs.

Chris Harte, the paper's publisher, said the filing would have no impact on home delivery, advertising, newsgathering or any other aspects of the paper's operations.

"We intend to use the Chapter 11 process to make this great Twin Cities institution stronger, leaner and more efficient so that it is well positioned to benefit when economic conditions begin to improve," Harte said in a statement.

You know Comrades, there's a nice concrete arch bridge you all can jump off of right above the Saint Anthony falls.

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Self Contradiction

The elected official or the political activist who declares that the ordinary citizen doesn't need a personal firearm has demonstrated the fact that the ordinary citizen does in fact need a personal firearm.

What are our questions on this block of instruction?
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This Is Disturbing

The assassination of a socialist politician.

I wrote it as part of the background of a role playing game.
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In Another Plane of Existence

Confirmation of a Theory.

Any questions?
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Motivation for the Day

The late General Loan was the first thing to come to mind when I saw this.
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Meanwhile in California

Message

I have a message from Mark.

And then there is this:


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I've Been Saying This For Years

"The Democrat's platform is nearly the same as the 1933 NSDAP's platform."

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

(I also strongly suggest reading The Ominous Parallels.)
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Two Items

First: The right front tire on my car has gone flat.

Second: The asshole who betrayed President Nixon and subsequently empowered the commie-peacefreak faction in Congress, thus allowing them to sell South Vietnam and Cambodia to the Reds, has achieved room temperature.

My previous comments on this piece of excrement are here and here.

Burn in Hell motherf***er.
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Thought for the Day

Just because someone else is holding the gun doesn't change the fact that someone is engaged in the act of robbery.

Thought for the Day

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it a highly sought-after voting bloc."
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John Bergstrom Still Doesn't Play Well With Others

(Here's the link)

I've got two words for the UAW: Chapter Eleven.

Seriously. Union members "working" for the Big Three get at least double the wages of other people (actually) working in the same position in a non-union company.

And the reason I cast aspersions upon the work ethic of UAW members is that many of these so-called workers don't actually do any work but they still collect full pay and benefits. This practice effectively adds about two thousand dollars to the price of every automobile offered for sale by the Big Three.

Our socialist overlords are rushing into a bailout of the Big Three because it is in fact a bailout of the UAW. Ayn Rand used to call this phenomena Pull Politics and the practitioners the Aristocracy of Pull.

And as with every other aristocratic set-up its the peasants like us who are compelled to pay for the maintenance and upkeep of those who deem themselves (because no one else will) better than us mere mortals.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Update 0530 18dec08:

Just because someone else is holding the gun doesn't change the fact that someone is engaged in the act of robbery.
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So Anyway

The doors on my car are frozen shut.
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Correspondence

I just received a letter from the Transportation Security Administration:

Dear Mr. BATES:

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has reviewed your application to obtain or renew your hazardous materials endorsement (HME) pursuant to Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.), Part 152. You currently meet the requirements to hold an HME.

Accordingly, this letter serves as a Determination of No Security Threat under 49. C.F.R. | 1572.15(d)(1). TSA will notify the state that you may obtain or renew your HME.

So some of the fun stuff I did in the nineties doesn't count.
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Weirdness for Today

There exists a recording of a Mexican mariachi band performing a cover of "Heart of Glass". Since I don't understand Spanish I can't really say that it is a cover of "Heart of Glass". It just sounded like what "Heart of Glass" would sound like if it were covered by a Mexican mariachi band.
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Sad News

Bettie Page passed on at 85

Rest in peace.
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Motivation for the Day

Thought for the Day

Anyone who believes that there is no difference between Right and Wrong is wrong.
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Think Of It As Idiocy In Action

The Associated Press reports:

CHICAGO – Federal authorities arrested Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich Tuesday on charges that he brazenly conspired to sell or trade the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by President-elect Barack Obama to the highest bidder.

Blagojevich also was charged with illegally threatening to withhold state assistance to Tribune Co., the owner of the Chicago Tribune, in the sale of Wrigley Field, according to a federal criminal complaint. In return for state assistance, Blagojevich allegedly wanted members of the paper's editorial board who had been critical of him fired.

A 76-page FBI affidavit said the 51-year-old Democratic governor was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps over the last month conspiring to sell or trade the vacant Senate seat for personal benefits for himself and his wife, Patti.

If there is one thing I despise more than an Illinois Nazi its an Illinois Democrat.

The affidavit said Blagojevich also discussed getting a substantial salary for himself at a nonprofit foundation or an organization affiliated with labor unions.

It said Blagojevich also talked about getting his wife placed on corporate boards where she might get $150,000 a year in director's fees.

He also allegedly discussed getting campaign funds for himself or possibly a post in the president's cabinet or an ambassadorship once he left the governor's office. He noted becoming a U.S. senator might remake his image for a possible presidential run in 2016, according to the affidavit. And he allegedly said a Senate seat would also provide him with corporate contacts if he needed a job and present an opportunity for his wife to work as a lobbyist.

"I want to make money," the affidavit quotes him as saying in one conversation.

This only confirms my thesis that Leftists in general are basically parasites.

U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said in a statement that "the breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering."

"They allege that Blagojevich put a for sale sign on the naming of a United States senator," Fitzgerald said."

Among those being considered for the post include U.S. Reps. Danny Davis and Jesse Jackson Jr.

Blagojevich also was charged with using his authority as governor in an attempt to squeeze out campaign contributions.

His chief of staff, John Harris, also was arrested.

Corruption in the Blagojevich administration has been the focus of a federal investigation involving an alleged $7 million scheme aimed at squeezing kickbacks out of companies seeking business from the state. Federal prosecutors have acknowledged they're also investigating "serious allegations of endemic hiring fraud" under Blagojevich.

Political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko who raised money for the campaigns of both Blagojevich and Obama is awaiting sentencing after being convicted of fraud and other charges. Blagojevich's chief fundraiser, Christopher G. Kelly, is due to stand trial early next year on charges of obstructing the Internal Revenue Service.

According to Tuesday's complaint, Blagojevich schemed with Rezko, millionaire-fundraiser turned federal witness Stuart Levine and others to get financial benefits for himself and his campaign committee.

Federal prosecutors said Blagojevich and the chairman of his campaign committee have been speeding up corrupt fundraising activities in the last month to get as much money as possible before the end of the year when a new law would curtail his ability to raise contributions from companies with state contracts worth more than $50,000.

According to the affidavit, agents learned Blagojevich was seeking $2.5 million in campaign contributions by the end of the year, with a large part allegedly to come from companies and individuals who have gotten state contracts or appointments.

I and two of my half-brothers were born in Illinois. The family then moved to Minnesota. Definitely a good move.

Blagojevich took the chief executive's office in 2003 as a reformer promising to clean up former Gov. George Ryan's mess.

Which gives us a clear answer to the question of how good the word of a Democrat is.

Do I realy need to say it?
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Anniversary

On this day in 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy did something that was really stupid.

The Imperial government apparently failed their premise check before embarking on a war with the United States.
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History Lesson

What most people don’t realize is that The Matrix is really a remake of the 1969 East German film Wirklichkeit ist eine Illusion, also lassen Sie uns sprechen Rätsel, Eintragfaden-Polizei und Tanzkampf (”Reality is an Illusion, so Let Us Speak Riddles, Shoot Police and Dancefight”). This film was made in response to the large number of philosophically obscure European films released in 1968 and the East German communists didn’t want to be left in the dust by their Western opposite numbers (It’s the RED pill for a reason).

Unfortunately the East German censors were either not “read in” on the project or they didn’t care and they refused to approve of its release and the film was placed into storage until the fall of the East German communist government in 1989. After a very short limited release a number of VHS copies of the film made it to Los Angeles and the rest is history.

(Yes, I’m kidding.)

Thought for the Day

Peace is what happens when you run out of targets.
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Thought for the Day

The alternative to civilized political discourse is political violence.

Link and Link.
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Assault on Waco

I just reposted on THE NEW RESISTER an article about the Waco Massacre that was originally published on the Libernet Mailing List in 1993.

My Editorial Introduction.

Part One.

Part Two.

Part Three.

Part Four.

Part Five.

References.
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Thoughts for the Day

In a discussion thread on terrorism on Little Green Footballs I made a suggestion concerning the treatment of captured terrorists. I said:

"How about making them listen to Barbara Streisand and Yoko Ono?"

Not everyone agreed with me. They said:

"Even for terrorists, that's inhumane!"

"The Pentagon's ethical war robots will not allow that to happen."

"Well, that'd break me, for sure. I'd have to swallow my tounge or cut my wrists with my teeth or something (anything) to make the horrible noise go away."

"Barbara is one thing, but Yoko? Good God, man..."

"Good God, man. I do have my limits to cruelty."

Civilized people can disagree, right?
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Um...

See what we learned today Mr. Scruffy? Solve a man's problems with violence, help him for a day. Teach a man to solve his problems with violence, help him for a lifetime!

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Um...Okay...

Outrider at Little Green Footballs wrote:

Not that this tale has much to do with anything------

Back in the mid 80s our unit deployed to REFORGER from Ft Hood, TX to Northern Germany. The section NCOIC brought a stuffed toy duck along as a joke. Shortly after arrival the duck disappeared. But for the next three months while we were there we kept getting these communiques and photos of the duck. The photos usually involved the duck being blindfolded and bound with a gun pointed at its head. I think the "kidnappers" were the Peoples Liberation Army of something or other. But, these photos had backgrounds of scenery all over Europe. It kept people amused for the three months though.

It was finally returned as we were turning the vehicles back in prior to redeployment, when someone noticed the duck was tied spread-eagled to the grill of a five ton truck. Happy ending.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Read This.
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A Suggestion

In response to a comment by Zombie on Little Green Footballs I wrote:

If I recall correctly the Allies only hanged one propagandist at Nuremberg.

Obviously the willing collaborators in the Mainstream Media didn't get the message or they believe that the message does not apply to them.

Should our present internal political situation devolve into an open civil war, I would suggest doing a proper Roman style decimation of the willing propagandists in the MSM. That is, hang every tenth anti-human hack.

This is only a suggestion.

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Motivational Poster of the Day

A Scene From The Job Hunt

I just returned home from an informational meeting where the recruiter for the Minnesota Department of Transportation told everyone present that the state government of Minnesota is the largest employer in the state.

She said it as if it was a good thing.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Thought for the Day

I miss a lot of things about the Seventies, except for bumpers, paint colors, disco, and Jimmy Carter.
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Thought for the Day

I feel happier when I'm working than when I'm sitting at home.
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Thought for the Day

Thought for the Day

H. Beam Piper once wrote that political revolutions occur in a nation because the ruling class becomes discredited.

The Republican Party has to a large degree discredited itself by their continued insistence on practicing politics as usual and their continued practice of making deals with the other side.

Now that the other side is fully in charge in Washington we are about to receive a hard lesson on political incompetence. And contrary to what Azimov once wrote, violence will be the first thing that our rulers resort to.

I still remember Waco.
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Anniversary

On this day thirty years ago another experiment in socialism failed.
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Motivation for the Day

Bloody Vikings!
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Thought for the Day

Other "normal" cultures celebrate the so-called nobility, the local bunch of polished up thugs. Islam celebrates their false prophet, a pedophile rapist, robber, and murderer.

Americans celebrate actual working people*.



What are your questions on this block of instruction?


* Official Soviet culture made a show of celebrating the workers as a collective. But even this aspect of Soviet culture was a fraud as the rulers, the Nomenklatura, held the working class in utter contempt.
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Thought for the Day

"Most Russians Urban-Americans don't care whether they are ruled by fascists or communists or even Martians as long as they can buy six kinds of sausage lettuce in the store and lots of cheap vodka overpriced gourmet coffee."

-- General Alexander Lebed The Other Les.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

In Other News

The Big ZERO gets to see the Oval Office for the first time today.

Imagine a soft-spoken tour guide in a nice cardigan sweater.

"This is the Hot Line to the Russians. Can you say 'Hot Line'?"

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Blast From The Past

Oh... Here's something I just dug up from some old files:

The effectiveness of totalitarian gun control as described by the commander of the 106th Guards Airborne Division of the Soviet Army. One of the units sent to suppress an anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan. As told to Carey Schofield, author of "The Russian Elite: Inside SPETSNAZ And The Airborne Forces."

"We landed by night, and some of our aircraft came under attack as we did so. One carrying personnel from Tula landed with twenty-two holes in the fuselage. The people thronging around the airfield were armed with sub-machine guns, knives and clubs. I went over to the crowd and said, 'Look! The Army is not a cat to be swung around in the air. Clear the road!' The KPP (Control and Command Post) of the airfield was blocked with KRAZ and KAMAZ trucks loaded with boulders. People started shouting that we wouldn't get through. While I was talking to the crowds my sappers were cutting the wire fence about 200 meters to the left and right of the KPP. I gave the crowds five minutes to think things over. They began jeering and laughing. Within five minutes two companies from my Ryazan regiment had crossed through the holes in the wire. The whole crowd was ordered to lie face down. We kept them there all night, to let them think things over. When we told them to clear off, the next morning, nobody wanted to admit that he had come armed. They all just left their weapons behind. So I said, 'okay, let's just say we found them'."

If gun control doesn't keep firearms out of the hands of criminals (genocidal criminals at that) in Soviet Russia, it is not going to do so in Soviet America.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Quote of the Day

From the comments on Robert Bidinotto's blog:

Around 1967 at the University of Chicago, I was talking to one of the radical guys in my dormitory. He argued that only a radical change in government would bring about a better society. I disagreed.

He said that his movement would become stronger, and eventually I would agree with him. I asked, what if I didn't agree with him, even later? He flashed anger and told me that if I didn't agree on my own, he would make me agree. I saw that as the end of the discussion.

-- Andrew Garland

Congratulations Obama voters! You narcissistic assholes have sold an entire nation into bondage so you can feel good about yourselves. On what grounds do you dare call yourselves Human?

That is all.
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Thought for the Day

The Media in the context of a political contest has a function similar to that of a witness in a criminal trial. By committing perjury the witness prevents the jury from issuing a correctly informed verdict. The results of which are wrong, such as the conviction of an innocent individual, and could be disastrous, like the acquittal of a murderous psychopath. Thus the act of perjury must be treated as a punishable crime.

Similarly, when the Media misinforms the electorate the result can be disastrous. Such as the election on an individual who is philosophically and experientially unfit to hold the office.

But we're not supposed to hold reporters and publishers responsible for those destructive actions.

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Anniversary

Today is the anniversary of the Bolshevik coup d'etat in Saint Petersburg. The beginning of the nightmare known to us as the Soviet Union.

Some people insist on not learning.
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Another Announcement

I have just started a new blog called THE NEW RESISTER.

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Announcement

The nightmare has begun.
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A Reminder

Let's talk about Socialism.

We must understand that Socialism is essentially a Master/Slave ideology. If you pardon me for quoting the First Trustifarian, "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs." And for the socialists, as with the antebellum slaveholders, the needs of the masters will always be much greater than the needs of the slaves.

The socialist master class, both here in the United States and abroad, basically see themselves being dispossessed of what according to their ideology is rightfully theirs. Control of their slaves and the products of slave labor. What should not be a surprise to us is that the response of the socialist master class and their supporters is in many ways similar to the actions of the antebellum slaveholder class and their supporters.

Those who reject the chains of the Left are subjected to public ridicule and slander by the self-styled intellectuals and subject to physical violence by the goon squad, with the ski-mask replacing the white sheet as the attire of choice.

If you will pardon me for the use of shocking language, to the master class of the Left, we who reject the chains of Socialism are (regardless of our actual race) no better than a bunch of "Uppity Niggers." It should be no surprise to us that they are treating us as such.

If we want to go on the ideological offensive (Or is it the Counter-Offensive?) we should simply point out the fact that the socialist economic structure is based on SLAVE LABOR.

If you will pardon me for repeating this, "from each according to his ability -- to each according to his need." Is the literal description of a slave labor economic system.

It is invariably the full socialist states such as the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, and the various People's Republics of Whatever that build and depend on full-service slave labor camps to create the goods that they need to survive.

It is the socialist parties in the otherwise Capitalist nations of the West that act as if wealth, the product of everyone's thought and labor, belong not to the individual who created it, but to some manifestation of the collective (Der Volk, the World Proletariat, etc.) as a whole, and thus act as if a robbery has occurred when the true creators of wealth are allowed to keep some of it.

(Gosh, wow, I do tend to get a bit long winded sometimes.)

The socialist is for the most part someone who declines to live the essentially rational and productive life that is proper to Man, and instead goes to great lengths (including the total disconnect from reality) to cook up excuses to grab the wealth created by others. As if the goods and services created by others were something naturally found in nature.

Instead of living as rational men, socialists choose instead to exist as less than rational animals.

Perhaps we should start treating them as such.

Let's start by voting them out of office and go on from there.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Thought for the Day

Of course The Big ZERO (Die Grosse NULL) is going to have a problem with selfishness.

It's not just an issue of tax policy. Before one can say, "this is wrong, I won't do it", one has to say "I".

Conscience is the expression of the ego in the moral realm. To make a moral judgment and to act on it are basically selfish acts. It is the self that sees through its own eyes and acts on its own knowledge of right and wrong.

Or to put it another way, you can't really be selfish if you can't live with yourself.

Rational Selfishness as Ayn Rand tried to define and advocate was limited to acts which benefited one's self but caused no affirmative harm or inflicted a cost on another person.

Narcissism on the other hand, especially in the political realm, is not concerned with the injuries and burdens inflicted on other people. In fact, the more destructive the consequences of obedience to those who obey the narcissist, the better. Human sacrifice with beating hearts cut out and victims flayed alive, that's great. Millions worked to death in slave labor camps in Siberia, that's better. As far as the narcissist is concerned.

Let me put it this way: In order for me to say, "I, Leslie Bates, do solemnly swear to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America..." I have to say "I". That was my ego speaking when I swore that oath.

I don't know what else to say on this subject.
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Thought for the Day

Original found here.
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Question of the Day

John Bergstrom (a.k.a. Varmint) has a question:



It's the hair style.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Demotivator of the Day

No guys.

You really aren't superior beings.

It's one thing to mock the sillier manifestation of the American politician (HAROLD STASSEN!) but the constant expression of hatred for the adults who can actually govern is getting sickening.

It's no wonder the Rocky Horror phenomena is dying. You've taken the fun out of it. Some of you have turned it into the Two Hour Hate.

I think I'll skip the last show at the Mounds Theater.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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In Other News

Oleg Volk's father Ted is running for a city council seat in Edina, Minnesota.

Unfortunately I live in Northeast Minneapolis.
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Demotivator of the Day

This display of political hatred is brought to us by some Leftist piece of shit in West Hollywood, California.

We mock and prosecute Klansmen for their stupid and destructive behavior. But the fact of the matter is that Klansmen act the way they do because they believe that they are superior beings destined to rule over those they have deemed to be inferiors.

Guess who else believe themselves to be superior beings?

The Left.

Who else preached hatred and murder of inferiors?

The Left.

One would be hard pressed to find a greater example of homicidal hatred (other than the NSDAP) preached and commanded at the political level than Lenin screaming for the mass murder of the Kulaks. Which is to say the extermination of those who refused to obey him and worship him as their God and Savior in the place of Jesus Christ.

As stupid and destructive as the Klan was they could not in a million years match the insanity and deadliness of The Left in absolute power. The Klan simply could not lynch enough Africans to match the 100 million person worldwide bodycount that Leftist regimes have run up since November of 1917.

But if Lefties in America want to behave like Klansmen then let's start treating them like Klansmen.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

(Hat Tip to Dirty Harry)

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Thought for the Day

A totalitarian is a totalitarian.

It doesn't matter if the bullet in your head was placed there by a National Socialist, a Soviet Communist, or (if the election goes really wrong here) an Obamatologist. What does matter is that you are the victim of someone who truly believed that you and other people existed to serve as tools and materials for the construction of their ideological fantasy and who also believed that those who do not submit are trash to be disposed of.

Every member of the founding leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was once in the custody of the Russian Police for their revolutionary activities. They should have been put to death, but were instead imprisoned and eventually released. Adolf Hitler was arrested and tried for his attempt to overthrow the State Government of Bavaria by force. He should have been hanged for treason, but was instead imprisoned and released.

Tens of millions of people died because persons in positions of authority did not recognize the danger that these violent revolutionaries represented and failed to exercise the full powers available to them to prevent the great massacres of the Twentieth Century.

Only you can stop Barack Obama and his followers from murdering millions.
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Dream, Dream Away...

During the brief period in which I managed to get any sleep I had a weird dream.

It was kind of a stream of consciousness movie that could be titled JAY AND SILENT BOB GO TO GUATEMALA. But in this film I'm in the role of Silent Bob and I'm constantly yelling at Jay to stop messing with things, get away from potentially dangerous things like a massive steam locomotive (i could actually feel the heat radiating from it), and to stop bothering those soldiers.

It would be more accurate to call it JAY AND LOUD LES GO TO GUATEMALA.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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Quote of the Day

"The people need to hear the sound of gunfire in order to restore discipline."

-- Kim Il Sung

Sure Kim, whatever you say.

There's also supposed to be a big announcement today. Dear Leader Kim will probably declare that he has invented the cheeseburger. I wouldn't put it past him.
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Yes

There are people who are that stupid.

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Thought for the Day

Honor Blackman.
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Someone Else's Thought For The Day

Dr. Sanity writes:

Even more compelling for me is the fact that Obama's associations show a distinct pattern of intimately consorting with and sucking up to the scum of the earth. 'That guy' seems to have hung out with wide range of terrorists, radicals, sleazeballs and criminals. He has variously called them "friends", "mentors" and "benefactors" because they all helped him to become what he is today.

The fact of the matter is that The Big ZERO has a series of long and close personal and professional relationships with persons who can be reasonably described as "Enemies of the Republic" and "Enemies of Human Kind." The Big ZERO is simply unfit to hold any form or level of public office. Reaching this conclusion should be a no-brainer. And anyone who hasn't reached that conclusion has no brains.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Thought for the Day

To deny free will is to deny personal responsibility for one's own actions. And in an age when one can kill more people with the stroke of a pen than with a lifetime's use of a personal weapon that is a pretty useful excuse.
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So Anyway

Got up too early after too little sleep and did 8.5 hours of dish washing in a pancake restaurant in Eden Prairie, MN. The manager wanted me to come back tomorrow but I'm taking Sunday off.

Monty Python's Restaurant Sketch often came to mind today.



What also came to mind was a line that I want to use in something someday:

"Politicians are primarily concerned about three things, getting elected, getting reelected, and getting laid."


So what are your questions about this block of instruction?
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Thought for the Day

The point of the First Amendment was to protect the right of the people, including what we now call the Media, to speak and publish the truth, no matter how unpleasant it may be to those in (or wishing to be in) government.

The problem is not only is this right being openly abused but any attempt to deal with this abuse would only create a power that will with absolute certainty be abused by the other party should it regain power over us.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Thought for the Day

Some people wonder why the advocates of Communism couldn't move to a country ruled by an actual Communist regime.

They won't do that because they would just be another drone in the Communist hive. What they want is to be the rulers of their own Communist state.

They want to be G-d on Earth.

They see us mere mortals as either tools or livestock that they can use for their own ends, or as defective animals that must be destroyed, or trash to be disposed of.

Such people cannot be reasoned or negotiated with. They can only be isolated, driven off, or destroyed.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?
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Demotivator of the Day

Yes. Babs actually did that.
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John Bergstrom Still Doesn't Play Well With Others

Behold the Obamajugend!



John says:

I can't help but expect that there's some woman just off camera, slowly stirring poison into a bowl of Kool-Aid.

It could be worse. A lot worse.
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