Notice

New pope elected.

He has taken the official name of Francis.

So what?

Quote Of The Day

Classical economic Marxism is not light, and most of the radicals of the Sixties were not deep.

Bill Lind, August 10, 1998

You Tube video here.

Announcement

Hugo Chavez, who once attempted to seize power by force and was elected to be the chief looter of Venezuela, has expired.

The Marxist piece of trash should have been taken out and shot.

Some things should not ever be left to the hands of God.

And here is the Pythonic version of the announcement:

He’s not pining! He’s passed on! This looter is no more! He has ceased to be! He’s expired and gone to meet his maker! He’s a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace! If he hadn’t been nailed to the hospital bed he’d be pushing up the daisies! His metabolic processes are now history! He’s off the twig! He’s kicked the bucket, He’s shuffled off his mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bloody choir infernal!! THIS IS AN EX-Looter!!

Thought For The Day

Barack Obama: We dumped the British Monarchy for him?

Post of the day

I've finished the second chapter of the novel.

http://otherles.livejournal.com/11890.html

A Reminder

If your spine glows while you are having sexual intercourse you may be a Cylon.

First Chapter

I just posted the first chapter of my novel on my Live Journal page.

This is not set in the Official Traveller Universe.

http://otherles.livejournal.com/11664.html

Event Of The Day

Today is Yoko Ono's 80th birthday.

I'd say, "Dear God, why?" But I'm an atheist.

A Literary Demolition Of DORSAI!

Or how not to write a science fiction novel.

As part of my project to write a science fiction novel I am re-reading DORSAI! Yes, the exclamation point is part of the title. This is the first novel in a series of ubermensch fantasies by Gordon R. Dickson. I am reading it with the intent of deconstructing it as an example of military science fiction with mercenaries. My goal as a novelist is to create a depiction of a similar band of mercenaries and show how a rational nation would be deal with them.

Here’s the first paragraph from the chapter titled MERCENARY III:

Returning again up the corridor toward the bow of the ship, Donal allowed himself to wonder, a little wistfully, about this incubus of his own strange difference from other people. He had thought to leave it behind with his cadet uniform. Instead, it seemed, it continued to ride with him, still perched on his shoulders. Always it had been this way. What seemed so plain, and simple and straightforward to himself, had always struck others as veiled, tortuous, and involved. Always he had been like a stranger passing trough a town, the ways of whose people were different, and who looked on him with a lack of understanding amounting to suspicion. Their language failed on the doorstep of his motives and could not enter the lonely mansion of his mind. They said “enemy” and “friend”; they said “strong” and “weak”–“them” and “us”. They set up a thousand arbitrary classifications and distinctions which he could not comprehend, convinced as he was that all people were only people–and there was very little to choose between them. Only, you dealt with them as individuals, one by one; and always remembering to be patient. And if you did this successfully, then the larger, group things came out right.

Can you understand that? Was Dickson an English Literature major at the U of M?

ASTOUNDING SCIENCE FICTION, the periodical that published this serially in 1959 did pay a penny a word. But this amount of barely incomprehensible verbiage is simply absurd.

Dickson attempts to recreate the European political environment prior to the Treaty Of Westphalia (1648), a time when the use of specifically raised and organized mercenary units was commonplace. Civil wars within what should be sovereign nation states are commonplace. Dickson also creates a moral nightmare. A universe where the Right Of Life is legally negated. An individual may be conscripted by the state and forced to work on another world in trade for another worker with knowledge in another field. Or die as cannon fodder in a foreign war. And the penalty for an individual who broke this so-called contract is death.

Dickson may not have understood the concept of government. But then he was a graduate of the University Of Minnesota.

What is very apparent when reading this and the other works in the series is that Dickson adopted a Platonist metaphysics. What passes for philosophy is a gibberish of Eastern Mysticism and Racial Collectivism along with the open practice of magic. In fact the overall plot of the series, such it was, is completely dependent on the occurrence of magical events. It would more accurate to describe this series as a work of fantasy instead of science fiction. In THE FINAL ENCYCLOPEDIA, Dickson actually wrote a scene set on the Platonic World Of Forms. And at the end of the initial novel Dickson has his protagonist literally commanding the antagonist to suffer. And the antagonist magically does so.

If reality is unreal in a fictional universe, why bother to write about it?

Incident Of The day

According to the Winnipeg Free Press:

Meteorite falls in Russia's Chelyabinsk region; 100 injured

Of course, the environmentalist wackos will blame this on global warming.

UPDATE 0155:

Dashcam video of meteor. Russian disco sucks.

So Anyway

The plot line I'm thinking of using in the novel combines elements of the films BLADERUNNER and MY FAIR LADY.

Um...

Thought For The Day

As part of my project to write a military science fiction novel I'm rereading Dorsai(!) by Gordon R. Dickson. Quite frankly I'm astounded as to how this piece of literary excrement was ever published. But I will finish reading it because I'm basing some of the bad guys on the Dorsai mercenaries.

Nuclear Test Of The Day

Apparently there is such a place as the Nuclear Test Road in North Korea.

Nice piece of 1945 technology you got there Mr. Kim.

Not A Replicant

Pope Benedict XVI to resign

Although at the age of 85 he's a bit too old to go out and party.

Question Of The Day

Read this:

Muslim abuser who 'didn't know' that sex with a girl of 13 was illegal is spared jail

Where is a lynch mob when you really need one?

There is a serious philosophical question that I really need to think about. I'll get back to you folks later.


UPDATE -- 0948 CDT:


What is the purpose of religious tolerance?

The individual is the sovereign authority in a civil society. Because of this the government cannot impose a belief, including a religious belief, upon him. Thus any religion that accepts the individual as sovereign authority in a civil society can and must be tolerated.

Under Islam man is the property of the deity. A person has no rights, cannot enact legislation, and cannot establish and uphold a moral standard. Compliance with Islam must be imposed by force. Furthermore a Muslim is permitted to deceive or otherwise use non-believers for their own gain and even commit murder. An underage girl who is protected under a rational code of law is seen, literally, as a usable object under the doctrine of Islam.

Such behavior, which denies the rights and sovereignty of the individual, cannot be tolerated in a civil society.

Two Novels

This is not a review. This is simply a comment.

Before I entered high school I read STARSHIP TROOPERS by Robert A. Heinlein. In this work, which was written in response to pacifist agitation, Heinlein explains how a military organization should function and more importantly, why it should act this way. Heinlein also explains what he believes the obligations of citizenship are.

I was mentally blown away.

When I was in high school I read THE FOREVER WAR by Joe Haldeman. It was an anti-war novel written by a veteran of ground combat in the Vietnam War. It was written in part as a response to STARSHIP TROOPERS. This work was a virtual step by step manual on how not to run a society and fight a war.

First, shoot first and don't ask any questions of anyone. The war began with the assumption that the loss of a colony ship was due to a recently encountered alien race. No attempt to communicate with the aliens is made. The first group of aliens encountered is simply killed as if the troopers were back in Vietnam. Later on we are told that the aliens are a group mind that is a priori incapable of communicating with an individual mind. It is only when a Terran group mind is created that communication became possible. I suppose that someone could drive a Nimitz class aircraft carrier through this plot hole.

Second, don't ask for volunteers. Conscript the best and the brightest, no one can refuse the draft. And because the troopers lives belong to the collective they cannot withhold consent to sexual contact. Gang rape of women in the mixed gender units is shown to be the norm.

Third, collectivism is the future. Social engineering in practiced to the point that a collective mind is created. Communication, and thus peace, with the aliens becomes possible.

I was not positively impressed by this novel.

Delayed Response

On Wednesday a waitress at a St. Louis area Applebee's restaurant was stiffed by the pastor of a church on the Illinois side of Mississippi River. The waitress posted an image of what the stiffer wrote on the bill:

Now as an atheist I would be tempted to say, "I exist, God doesn't." Or I could say, "I worked, God didn't."

On Wednesday I started to write a rant on the subject for my blog but I was not happy with the text and decided that more thought on the subject was necessary. Here's what I wrote:

When I was a delivery driver for Pizza Hut I used to dread orders from hardcore Democrats and union members, a status usually indicated by a sign on the front lawn of a sticker on the front door. These people would never tip. The worst case of abuse I experienced was from an African-American man wearing a t-shirt with the image of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the place of Che Guevara, I waited standing in a cold thundershower while this person counted out the exact amount of the transaction down to the penny with no tip added. And I had to stand there like a good delivery driver and smile. Why does this clearly abusive behavior occur? The theory I held at the time was that the person believed that their ideological status exempted them from treating working people decently.

To put it another way it appeared that the illusion of moral supremacy allowed these people to behave in an apparently despicable manner.

As of Friday the waitress was fired for violating corporate policy.

Question Of The Day

Why should the piper lead us to reason?

Post For the Day

I was going to whine about people who don't tip. But I still need to work on it.

And yes, it did involve Dihydrogen Monoxide.

Safety Tip Of The Day

There is a mist of Dihydrogen Monoxide in the early morning (pre-sunrise) air here in Minneapolis. Upon touching the ground it freezes into a slippery surface. Because of this I've decided to stay indoors until the air warms up.

Thought For the Day

Those who believe they can do no wrong, with absolute certainty, will do wrong.

Act Of The Day

Dihydrogen Monoxide is falling from the sky in solid form in Minneapolis.

I shall remain indoors today.

Dream State

I just woke up from a dream where I was with a member of the Edison High School cheer leading squad that I never met before and stuck in a weird cross between an episode of STAR TREK: VOYAGER and THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW set in the State of Wisconsin.

Nothing sexual happened, as in the real world.

Dihydrogen Monoxide was not a factor in this dream.

Thought For The Day

I'll die first before I vote for a Democrat.

Idiot of The day

Andy Driscoll, a host for the the non-profit leftist radio station KFAI believes as real a photo-shopped image of three drones flying in formation over the Obama inaugural ceremony.

The image was originally published in THE ONION.

And Driscoll is still taking the image seriously.

Story in the CITY PAGES.

Thought For The day

We live in a dynamic universe. Changes in physical objects, such as galaxies, stars, planets, as well as geological features and the climate occur as a result of entirely natural processes. This occurs completely without any conscious direction by anyone at all.

Some people cannot accept this. They apparently believe that without conscious action the universe that we perceive would exist in a steady state. Without any change.

In order to account for the changes they see they conceived of a series of higher beings, ending with God, to hold responsible. Because God is seen as the agent of change and control, some men sought to influence him for their own benefit. Thus religion was invented. But because there is no God, the practice of religion has no effect. As a result some men, in the form of the progressive state have stepped into the perceived vacuum.

The progressive state, as the stand in for God, has to show that they are in control and a benefit to men. But because they cannot effect natural processes they must exercise control oven men. Thus they created the Prohibition Acts, economic controls, gun control, environmental legislation, and the welfare state in general. As the substitute for God they need to control every aspect of human life.

And as a result of this process the state, and in particular the leader, is mentally deified. The leader is treated as the living embodiment of God, to be worshiped and obeyed It does not matter to them that their premise is false and their actions are ineffective or negative.

Cartoon Of The Day

From BALOO"S Cartoon Blog:

That could explain some things.

Dehumanization

In reporting on the massacre carried out by Muslim terrorists in Algeria the Daily Mail said this:

He said more than 20 British workers – whom the terrorists called ‘kuffar’, meaning non-Muslims – were rounded up.

This is incorrect. The correct translation of the word “kuffar” is bug. That is a non-human being with no right to live.

When I was writing for THE RESISTER, the editor -- under the apparent influence of Saul Alinsky -- told me that we have to dehumanize our opponents on the Left.

I disagreed. I said that the Left, by what they chose to believe and how they chose to act have already dehumanized themselves. All we as writers have to do is accurately observe and report on their beliefs and actions.

In this case the jihadists who chose to believe that non-believers are not human -- and act on that belief -- have chosen to dehumanize themselves.

State of the Union

A friend sent me the following message:

In 2013 both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address will occur on the same day. This is an ironic juxtaposition of events. One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to an insignificant creature of little intelligence for prognostication. The other involves a groundhog.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Oh, Did I mention that some Dihydrogen Monoxide was released in Minneapolis today?

A 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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Horror Of The Day

A government that does not protect the citizens of the nation is a contradiction in terms.

For example: FRANCE

Just read the whole thing.

The current Socialist Regime is apparently making the Vichy Regime appear to be studly.

The Rule Of The Outlaws

During the course of writing a novel I had a bad guy character state:

“Don’t be silly Madame Keller,” he said in a manner that was clearly speaking down to her, “we all know that laws are only made for the purpose of controlling the little people for the benefit of their betters.”

Under the Primacy of the State the function of law is to control the productive population for the benefit of the ruling parasites. The rulers, and their immediate servants, are not subject to those laws themselves.

David Gregory of NBC News, a statist propaganda organ, is a servant of the rulers. What in the former Soviet Union was called the Nomenklatura.

WASHINGTON (AP) — NBC journalist David Gregory won't face charges for displaying a high-capacity ammunition magazine on his "Meet the Press" news program last month, District of Columbia prosecutors announced Friday.

The city's Office of the Attorney General, which handles low-level crimes, said criminal charges wouldn't serve the public's best interests even though possession of the magazine — capable of holding up to 30 rounds of ammunition — was clearly against local gun laws.

The actual interest of the actual citizens is irrelevant. What matters is the whims of the rulers and those who willfully serve them.

Under the Rule of Law all real laws must be applied to all citizens equally. Such as the laws prohibiting homicide.

As our Socialist rulers and their willing servants regard themselves as exempt from compliance with the laws, on what grounds can they claim to be protected under them?

Now, what are your questions on this block of instruction?

Fact Of The Day

As a nearly lifelong resident of the state of Minnesota I can say that walking on a patch of frozen Dihydrogen Monoxide can be hazardous to your health.

Quote Of The Day

From Capitalism Magazine:

And it’s the supposedly intellectually superior among us who are hell-bent on protecting the nonviolent by making life more comfortable for the violent.

-- Dr. Michael J. Hurd

Those who see themselves as infallible are already in the failure mode.

Thought For The Day

I had thought that the villains in my science fiction novel project were a bit absurd. And then I read pages 38-39 of THE DIM HYPOTHESIS by Dr. Leonard Peikoff:

A philosophy professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology makes eloquently real the connection between nihilism and anti-integration. I quote from a letter from one of his students:

An anecdote from his own life... He said that he sat his 5 year old daughter down on his lap one day and asked "Where's Daddy?" She responded by pointing to him. He said. "No, that's Daddy's body. Where's Daddy?" She looked perplexed and then pointed to his head. He responded, "No, that's Daddy's head. Where's Daddy?" This conversation continued for some time until he had reduced his daughter to tears while she screamed, "Where's my Daddy? Where's my Daddy?" I dropped the course very soon after that...."

Over the course of writing this blog I've been accused of being Satanic. Of having my humanity surgically removed. And of being the embodiment of all evil on Earth. But this is simply sick. This so-called man effectively admitted to being a soulless being. And his daughter should have been removed from his custody as a result of this action.

I will have to finish reading THE DIM HYPOTHESIS before I resume writing.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Free Literature

I was wring a science fiction novel. At a bit past 42,000 words I decided that two aspects, the extinction event on Earth and the villains where a bit too absurd, So I'm starting over again.

If anyone wants to read the existing MS send me an e-mail.

lesbates_traveller at yahoo dot com

Thought For The Day

Harry Binswanger, PHD wrote:

Laws prohibiting or regulating guns across the board represent the evil of preventive law and should be abolished.

Read his online column in Forbes here.

Gun Control also reduces the citizen to the status of livestock and therefore constitutes an act of treason.

Islam Is Death

Pamela Geller passes on a report in the Daily Mail about the latest Islamic atrocity in Pakistan:

Five female teachers in Pakistan have been slaughtered by Islamic militants bent on keeping women and girls away from education.

They were murdered in a New Year's Day ambush on the van carrying them home from their jobs at a community centre and primary school in the north-west of the country.

The teachers and two health workers - one man and one woman - were killed this afternoon in the conservative Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

What is it to be human?

To be human is to see things as they are to be the master of existence. Therefore true humans cannot be the livestock or playthings of the gods.

As such a true human will not blindly submit to a prophet and blindly obey such anti-human trash.

A true human has absolutely no use for predators such as the obviously false prophet Mohammad and his false god Allah.

And those who chose to behave as predatory animals must be identified and treated as such.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

So On And So Forth

At World Net Daily, a notoriously Christian news site, they are asking the question:

Are today's baby names abandoning Bible?

Let's ask the real question: Are more Americans accepting the fact that reality is real?

The fact of the matter is that all religions are false. No amount of whining or coercion will change this. In order to ascend to the height of civilization that we have reached we had to culturally compartmentalize our religion to Sunday Morning. Some people, myself included, are now taking the next logical step and dropping religion altogether. In all aspects of their lives.

But, as some Christians are whining, without obeying God everything will descend into chaos and destruction.

Nonsense.

Because God is an invalid concept we have no alternative but to accept responsibility for our own lives and actions. We will have to see things as they are and live according to the actual requirement of human life.

And the clergy will have to find real jobs.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Propaganda As Usual

Notorious hoplophobe Sarah Brady is lying as usual.

She has tweeted a billboard that has been obviously processed in Photoshop.

Any questions?

Quote Of the Day

From The Strategy Page:

Assault rifles are always loyal to whoever is holding them.

Any questions?

A Letter To The Mayor Of Minneapolis

Your Honor,

Since I moved into the Parker Skyview building in early November I have been subjected to overwhelming noise emitted from the adjacent apartment. I have repeatedly called the police to intervene to no practical effect. As of Christmas Eve I was notified by the watch commander at the Second Precinct that they will no longer respond to my complaints about the noise issue.

Are we now living in a state of anarchy?

Yours respectfully,

Leslie Bates

Philosophical questions. More fun than a baseball bat to the head. (EVIL GRIN)

And some people still wonder why I still vote straight Republican.

Thought For The day

If you want to predict what will be said by the democratic Party and their media prostitutes, all you have to do is take any statement by an old school Nation Socialist, cross out the word "Jew" and write in the words "Gun Owner."

That's how depraved and predictable they have become.

An Answer

During a discussion on gun control Harry Binswanger raised the following question:

If the majority wants a certain government, how is the minority going to defeat them with guns? The majority will have more guns.

That's a good and necessary question.

If all it took to construct a building was to stack stones upon each other there would be no science of architecture and no point in writing The Fountainhead.

If all it took to fight a war was to use brute force without rational input there would be no science of warfare or any such thing as a military organization.

If all factors were equal in warfare then a simple majority of combatants would win every time. But in reality all factors are never equal. Thus the purpose of military science is to identify the factors that favor one side or the other and use or negate those factors to one’s advantage.

A book that covers this process is The Myth Of The Great War by John Mosier. In this work the author explains how the Central Powers managed to avoid defeat until the American entry into the WW1 even though they were outnumbered by the Allies.

Mosier also covers the role of the active mind in warfare:

Over at Pershing's headquarters, young ex-cotton dealer turned intelligence officer, Samuel Hubbard, looked at all the available information and concluded that the Germans were going to turn south, and launch an offensive across the Chemin des Dames at the end of May. Despite the fact that the Allied intelligence estimates had been continuously wrong for the last forty-five months of the war, Hubbard's analysis was disregarded. How could the Americans, who had just arrived on the scene, be better then the French and the British, who had been doing for it for years?

Mosier, who up to this point had been cataloging the effects of the unconscious approach to war as practiced by the Allied powers, says this:

On 27 May 1918, The Germans, to the consternation and surprise of everyone except Captain Hubbard, smashed across the ridge.

In order to succeed in business one has to possess valid knowledge and use an active mind. The same in true in the practice of warfare as demonstrated by Captain Hubbard. In warfare the active mind with valid knowledge as a general rule will prevail over those who practice blind obedience.

Now I must also point out that as long as one free to communicate then one is free to persuade members of a political majority that they have made an error.

And of course not everyone who votes for a state of tyranny, particularly if they've been bribed into it, is going to put their lives on the line for it. Right?

Another Nihilist Touches A Keyboard

If there was such a work as Introduction To Kantian Epistemology the complete text could be boiled down to three words: Reality is unreal.

For example, William A. Jacobson, a professor at the Cornell University Law School, reported the following on one of his blogs:

Erik Loomis is an assistant professor of American history at the University of Rhode Island. He also blogs at “Lawyers Guns and Money” blog.

In reaction to the murders in Connecticut, Loomis tweeted that he had never been so angry except maybe for the invasion of Iraq (I guess 9/11 was chopped liver to him), and that he wanted the NRA chief’s “head on a stick”:

Now to the non-Kantian mind this constitutes a literal call for an act of murder. Having been outed as a would be murderer Loomis then attempts to rhetorically cover his backside:

Dear right-wing morons, saying you "want someone's head on a stick" is a metaphor. I know metaphor is hard for you to understand.

Dear rightwingers, to be clear, I don't want to see Wayne LaPierre dead. I want to see him in prison for the rest of his life.

Well why didn't he just say so? Would it be too clear?

Those of us who treat reality as being real learned a hard lesson back in the Twentieth Century. It was believed by many the when Hitler spoke of clearing the Jews from Europe that he was speaking metaphorically. It was when the Allied armies liberated the death camps that we discovered that Hitler was speaking literally.

To us who are not under the influence of Kant and in fact value our lives, a call for an act of murder has to be taken literally. There is simply no other morally valid option.

Having been outed as a would be murderer Loomis then backtracks and says he would settle for an act of tyranny. That he would settle for Wayne LaPierre to be imprisoned for life.

Punishing a man for an act he did not commit is unjust. Imprisoning a man for speaking the truth is tyrannical. Disarming the citizens -- who are the sovereign authority of the nation -- is treason.

To say anything more would require the extensive use of barracks language.


UPDATE 1335 CST:


A nihilist calling himself the Rude Pundit posted the following on Twitter:

First [expletive] to say the solution is for elementary school teachers to carry guns needs to get beaten to death.

In other words someone, such as myself, who suggests the obviously rational solution to irrational behavior is to be crudely murdered.

My name is Leslie Bates, I live at 1815 Central Avenue, Apartment 2313, in North East Minneapolis. I was trained by the United Sates Army to kill Marxist trash with my bare hands at the Benning School For Boys.

I routinely patronize the Diamonds Coffee Shop just down the street. Try to murder me and see what happens. If you insist on behaving like a Brownshirt, I will identify and treat you as one.

Have a nice day.


UPDATE 1530 CST:

Erik Loomis has just deleted his own Twitter account.

Poor baby. WAAAH!

Oy Vay!

After I posted an article on my blog explaining why a citizen needs to armed someone named Stephen Paul sent a very long and complete waste of text into my e-mail box via Google Plus.

In his waste of text -- I won't dignify it by calling it a rant or a keyboard dropping, nor will I quote any part of it even with the obscenities along with the racial and sexual preference slurs deleted -- he declared that I was a non-sentient animal who had no political authority as a citizen and no right to be armed.

I managed to boil down his message to the essential point in about one percent of the verbiage.

So what of it? If I am a mindless animal who is under the control of a master, why send me a message? If I'm not thinking for myself I certainly won't examine my own beliefs based on the mass of unnecessary verbiage and expletives that was transmitted.
Nor will I be impressed by his command of obscenities.

Instead of being positively impressed by this display of mental posturing I would have to come to the conclusion that Stephen Paul is an idiot.

I in turn reported his message to Google Plus as an example for hate speech.

What else could I do?

A Photo And A Question

Pamela Geller shows us how school children are protected in Israel.

Yes, that's a teacher protecting her students with a firearm.

What we have here is a solution to the problem that is simple and obvious. Except of course to those who are mentally stuck in the Kantian reality-is-unreal paradigm. But the Founders of the American Republic were not anticipating the presence of lunatics and Muslims running around and slaughtering children.

Why did they write in a right to bear arms in the Constitution?

My answer to the question is simply this: WE THE PEOPLE are the sovereign authority of the United States of America.

There are several natural consequences of the political primacy of the citizen. I'll just cover the first two here:

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment II

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

First, the citizen as the sovereign authority must be free to examine the facts for himself and communicate his conclusions to his fellow citizens. He cannot be compelled to believe a falsehood and therefore act on it.

Second, the citizen as the sovereign authority must possess the physical instrument of political authority and be prepared to use it. The ballot that is cast by the citizen, like the paper currency in common use, must be backed by a physical value.

The government must be subordinate to the sovereign authority, the citizens of the nation. And citizens must have the knowledge and the means to enforce their authority.

Contrary to what the practicing Kantians want us to believe, the first four words of the Second Amendment does not constitute a license to disarm the citizens and render them helpless in the face of a supreme state. It means that the citizens must be armed, trained, and organized to enforce their authority upon the government.

Now no rational person wants a civil war in our nation, but if the government would simply comply with the Constitution it wouldn't be necessary.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

A Larger Problem

On Friday I posted a response on my blog to the religious ravings of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. The link to the initial response is here.

At the time I was focused on Huckabee's commitment to theism. I missed the larger problem. This problem is simply contempt for the rights of the individual.

Life is the fundamental moral value. But to live in human mode of life does not mean mere physical existence. The human way of life requires conscious rational control of it. Freedom is the next step in the hierarchy of moral values. Because violence against men can only be stopped by force it becomes necessary to establish the institution of government to place the use of force under rational control.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

"We the People," not God, or Der Volk, et cetera, are the sovereign authority on whose behalf the government is established. With those three words the primacy of the citizen over the government is established.

The primacy of the citizen over the government required the right to speak and publish the facts and the right of the citizen to bear arms. As a result we also gained freedom from a religion being imposed on us, and a rational system of justice.

So far, so good. But from the very first day others, out of a desire for material or spiritual benefit, sought to overturn the primacy of the citizen in favor of the dominance of the state.

The desire for material benefit led to the Dred Scott decision, in which the citizens of the free states of the union were stripped of their authority to ban the practice of slavery in their own home states. This set the stage for the Civil War.

The desire for spiritual benefit (or the warm fuzzy feeling of the same) led to Prohibition. In this case the citizens were stripped of their right to decide to consume or not consume alcohol and were effectively reduced to the status of cattle under state control. Defiance and contempt for the rule of law became the order of the day and another result was the vast growth of organized crime.

But the worst was yet to come.

Combining both a desire for both material gain and spiritual dominance came the self-styled Progressives. Although there was some lining of the pockets on the part of the Progressives their primary goal was political control. Political looting was simply a means of buying the votes of the corrupted voters.¹

Even before the onset of Prohibition the Progressives had gained control of the public schools and had replaced education for citizenship as the sovereign authority with John Dewey's plan for programming children to morally devalue themselves and to be drones in the Progressive collective.²

Huckabee, in calling for the return of religious indoctrination to the public schools is not advocating an valid alternative to the inherent nihilism of Progressive programming. But simply wishes to replace blind obedience to the collective with blind obedience to God.³ In doing so he has accepted the fundamental Progressive premise and is facilitating their program. He is not upholding life as a moral value but is instead taking part in the destruction of the rational way of life.

And if Huckabee is going to claim that we as humans must obey God regardless of the consequences he may as well go all the way and convert to Islam.

But then Huckabee isn't the religious conservative idiot to facilitate the goals of the Left.⁴

What are your questions on this block of instruction?



1. What can I say? It apparently works for them.

2. When I was a contributor to THE RESISTER we referred to the public schools as Dewey Camps.

3. Here's my rant of the year on the subject of God.

4. There was William F. Buckley, Jr.

Furthermore I was kicked off the Baen's Bar forum for rudely responding to something said by one of their published authors. A religious conservative.

Quote Of The Day

Post Of The Day

For the record, Tom Kratman wrote a piece of Neo-Nazi war porn.

Here's a review.

Brain Death Case Of The Day.

A conservative is being disgusting as usual:

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee attributed the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in part to restrictions on school prayer and religious materials in the classroom.

"We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools," Huckabee said on Fox News, discussing the murder spree that took the lives of 20 children and 6 adults in Newtown, CT that morning. "Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?"

Law enforcement has released few details on the alleged gunman, but Huckabee suggested that the separation of church and state may have spurred his rampage.

"[W]e've made it a place where we don't want to talk about eternity, life, what responsibility means, accountability -- that we're not just going to have be accountable to the police if they catch us, but one day we stand before, you know, a holy God in judgment," Huckabee said. "If we don't believe that, then we don't fear that."

He said those suffering from a crisis from faith should look to God in the community's response to the violence. But he added that "Maybe we ought to let [God] in on the front end and we wouldn't have to call him to show up when it's all said and done at the back end."

Where do I start?

Better yet, I'll let an ancient Greek philosopher start for me:

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

– Epicurus

In short, if there was a God, then why did this act of mass murder happen?

Why did ANY act of mass murder happen?

WHY DID THE NIGHTMARE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, WITH NEARLY TWO HUNDRED MILLION DEAD, HAPPEN?

"Why God, did you allow all this to happen?"

In reply to these questions there is only silence.

There is no reply because there is no God.

Earlier this year I went on a long rant on the subject of God:

At no time in the fifty one years of my life have I ever come into physical or visual contact with God. I have never EVER received a message from God. No phone calls. No letters or other junk mail through the U.S. Postal Service. Not even an e-mail from god@god.god, even though he should be able to get something through the spam filter.

Nothing. At. All.

I simply have no reason to believe in the existence of God.

In the Collectivist dogma presently taught in the public schools a person had no rights because that person belonged to the collective. One could actually see a mob of looters and be seduced by the promise of real loot.

According to religious dogma you are the property of God and must obey him. You are not allowed to make moral decisions on your own. Regardless of the actual facts of reality.

But what do religious conservatives offer as a reward for obedience?

NOTHING.

Nothing. At. All.

In fact religion does not teach us anything about reality and how to live in it. Religion is pure nonsense.

That's all that I will say today.

Today

On this day fifty two years ago someone was born.

Thought For The day

If today's editorial staff of the New York Times were in charge seventy one years ago the headline would read:

IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY VISITS HAWAII

And the U.S. Navy and Army would be editorially denounced for racist violence against them.

Note For The Day

Seventeen years ago on this day Lisa McPherson died after being held captive by the Church of Scientology.

Think of it as religion in action.

An Icon For Altruism

While going through some old stuff after I moved into another apartment I found a hard copy of a draft of my obituary for Diana Spencer, The Princess of Wales. This was intended for publication in THE RESISTER, but the editor Sergeant First Class Steven Barry of the Third Special Forces Group, rewrote it and in doing so completely dropped the basic premise and even got her maiden name wrong.

Needless to say after this I stopped writing for THE RESISTER.

DIANA: A Wasted Life [The revision so far]

By Leslie Bates


One of the things I do for my own selfish pleasure is to take a sketchbook and a drafting pencil and draw. For the last fifteen years the second favorite subject of my work was the late Princess of Wales. So when Andrew Morton’s biography of Diana was originally published I purchased a copy. It took me four months to work up the nerve to finish the first chapter. I did not (and no rational egoist would) enjoy the spectacle of seeing a soul being crushed by a band of witch doctors. (When I first read this my thought was. “If this is how the ruling class educates their children then it’s no wonder that England is rapidly becoming a third world country.”)

To properly become an adult, a child must gain moral knowledge, to know what human life is and how to live it. What Diana received as a child was close to pure poison. Her parents sent her to a boarding school. The Church of England’s version of a Dewey Camp. Here she was pounded with the doctrines that selflessness was the moral ideal. That sacrifice and obedience were virtues. That independent judgement was evil. And that her mind was impotent to deal with material existence. Her mind thus mangled , it should have been no surprise that her life was mangled as well.

Diana became a Second Hander, someone who avoids moral judgement and is dependent on others for guidance. To avoid judgement is to suspend consciousness. It is to effectively shut down the mind and enter the mental equivalent of a state of death. It should not be a surprise that Diana would shortly become physically dead.

Diana was told that the royal family was the pinnacle of civilized existence. A rational person would have seen the royals as a useless remnant of a barbaric tradition, and that the monarch had become nothing more than ta hand puppet for the ruling party. No sane woman would condemn her children to such a fate.

During her engagement Diana discovered that her fiancee was a pragmatist who had an active sexual affair with an already married woman and who had no intention of breaking off the affair. A rational woman would have dumped the sniveling piece of hominid garbage on the spot. Diana asked her sisters for advice and was told to go through with the marriage out of duty.

[Insert paragraph on being an icon for altruism]
[Insert paragraph on third world savages]

All a rational woman had to avoid the aforementioned horrors was simply to say: “No. This is wrong. I won’t do it.” To do so requires a valid knowledge of moral standards, and for her to know that she was right to exercise moral judgement. It is not enough to know that there is an alternative to a particular course of action. One must know that the alternative is correct.

SFC Barry radically cut down the text to basically call her a drunken slut. As I said, I stopped writing for his publication.

Question Of The Day

Why does the Left openly support Islam?

Both Islam and Marxism were concocted by the uberparasites of their times, Karl the First Trustifarian and the Big Moh'. Both doctrines must deny the Right to Life -- and thus the subsidiary Rights of Liberty, Property, Free Speech, Et Cetera -- of all persons. Both ideologies must do so in order to establish and maintain the reign of terror and death, in order to control and exploit the productive population, that their parasitic adherents need to sustain their otherwise useless lives. To accept the concept of the Right to Life that underlies the society of consent is for the Marxist and the Mullah the first step in an act of suicide.

So it should be no surprise that the Left is coming out in favor of silencing the critics of Islam. They feel that the enemy of their enemy is something they can use.

Thought For The Day

Real men don't grovel to figments of a witch doctor's imagination.

Yes, I know it's Sunday.

I'm not groveling.

Photo Of The Day

This is a mother in Israel shielding her child with her own body during a savage rocket attack.

The rockets are a copy of the BM-40 artillery rocket originally deployed by the Soviet Army. Another band of savages serving in the cause of Communism.

Why does the mainstream establishment willfully blind themselves to the truth?

The origin of the doctrine of Islam is nothing more than the expression of the depravity of a predatory savage. It is overt nihilism posturing as righteousness. Islam is nothing less than a doctrine of human annihilation.

But, say some defenders of Islam, it is a religion, we can't criticize it or even interfere in any degree in the practice.

Really?

The first thing I was taught when I entered infantry basic training at Fort Benning in the spring of 1982 was that "the maximum effective range of an excuse is zero."

Acceptance of the facts is a fundamental necessity in the combat environment. Indulgence in a fantasy gets someone needlessly killed.

Innocent people are dying because the mainstream establishment won't understand and accept a fundamental truth.

Islam is Death.

And Islam is completely outside the bounds of civilized toleration.

Question Of The day

From Baloo's Cartoon Blog.

Oh, Bother!

Some moron tried to post an anonymous comment on an earlier post of this blog stating that there is no Black Panther Party.

Actually they presently call themselves the New Black Panther Party.

And I even posted a photo of one of them standing outside a polling place in Philadelphia.

Blah. Blah. Blah.

Quotes Of The Day

Daniel Greenfield on Frontpage Mag about a mother who doesn't understand the concept of motherhood:

If you turn conscience inside out, you get Islam.

If you had a choice between placing those children with their Muslim family or the Manson family, the Manson family would start looking pretty good. At least they only killed outsiders.

Yow!

The problem with evolution is that it sucks for the kids.

Another Thought

Pamela Geller has a thousand words on the subject of yesterday's alleged election.

Thought For The Day

As a result of yesterday's events I'm not going to feel guilty about living like a parasite on the welfare state.

The assholes asked for it.

PS: See you in Hell, Doug.

Totalitarian Socialism As Usual

Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner reports:

The Philadelphia GOP is reporting that court appointed Minority (read GOP) Inspectors are being thrown out of polling locations in several Wards.

These Inspectors are election officials - again, court appointed -- and are reportedly being thrown out by the Head Judges of Elections (these Judges are elected Democrats) and being replaced by Democrats.

Also in Philadelphia the Black Panthers are positioned at polling places as they were in 2008.

There’s a disturbing report coming out of Philadelphia, as it’s been confirmed that New Black Panthers are, once again, outside of a polling place — the same location they stood at, batons in hand, back in 2008 (the address is 12 and Fairmount, Ward 14).

TheBlaze originally received the following image of one of one alleged Panthers outside of the station via e-mail this morning, then FOX News confirmed their presence in a subsequent report with video.

And propagandist Michael Moore and other Democrats are whining about his party not being allowed to cheat.

The Democratic Party has all of the credibility and respect for the citizens shown by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Which is to say: NONE AT ALL.

Updates when I get around to it.

UPDATE 1345 CST:

Democrat vote fraud as usual.

Democrat voter intimidation as usual.

Thought For The Day

CHICAGO DELENDA EST!

This message brought to you by the NATO phonetic letters FOXTROT and UNIFORM.

UPDATE 2008 CST:

Those who believe that they superior and infallible beings are already in the failure mode.

Example: Condemning someone for something that is completely out of their control is a move practiced by both the National Socialist German Workers Party and my former friend Doug Graen.

Eat shit and die motherfucker.

PS: Linux sucks.

Something New

Thought For The Day

I've tried to be forgiving.

It doesn't work.

Just Remembering

I once had to close a checking account at TCF Bank. The person I was talking to was making excuses for not complying with my request. It was only when I told them that I would call the MN Attorney General’s office did they comply.

I suppose it did help that the sitting Attorney General was the DFL goon Skip Humphrey, who had a reputation of being one trench coat short of being a proper Soviet thug.

Quotes Of The Day

But I'm not a Marxist.

-- Karl Marx

No comrade. You created it. You own it. All of it.

If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts that you agree with -- and then indulge in any flights of fancy you wish, on your own.

-- Ayn Rand

I will have to admit to also being influenced by Robert Heinlein.

Brownshirts In Action

From Andrew Breitbart's Big Government site:

The Racine, Wisconsin Tea Party held a get-out-the-vote rally Saturday to energize conservatives for the final stretch of the upcoming election. Organizers for the rally arrived at the event venue to find hundreds of roofing nails spread across the parking lot where attendees were to park their cars.

It remains a mystery who left the nails in the parking lot, but it is just one more assault in a chain of attacks, likely incited by the left against Wisconsin conservatives who are openly expressing their views and gathering exercise their right to speak and assemble freely.

Such actions may be a surprise to certain members of the Church of Obamatology but they should not be a surprise to anyone who has read The Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff.

We must remember that the goal of Obamatology is to clear the planet of the effects of Capitalism. That is the behavior of decent and rational persons. In other words, civilization.

Think of it as Marxism as usual.

Islam And Altruism In Action

Real men do not commit the act of rape.

Unfortunately, this has become a significant problem with Muslim taxi drivers in the United Kingdom.

This is inexcusable. Completely inexcusable. I used to drive a taxi in Minneapolis and as far as I knew this behavior was unknown. Even with Muslim drivers

I did eject a woman from my cab once. She was being excessively rude. I brought her back to the bar where I made the pick up.

As the story points out most of the offenders have received less than a decade in prison sentences for their crimes. This is also inexcusable.

To commit the act of rape is to behave as a predatory animal. Those who choose to act as predatory animals should be identified and treated as such. The penalty for forcible and statutory rape should be nothing less than death.

But then, unlike some whim worshipping trash I used to know, I actually value life in the real world.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Thought For The Day

The Allied Powers once hanged defendants at Nuremberg for doing what the Mainstream Media routinely does in The United States today.

The problem with hanging the lot of deliberate falsifiers today is that a power granted today is a power that will be abused tomorrow.

Bit of a pickle, isn't it?

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Message to Mister Trump

The Big Zero is not going to any release evidence that he is not a proper American Citizen and therefore is not eligible for the office that he presently occupies.

And the members of The Church Of Obamatology will not care any more that their messiah is not a proper citizen of this republic any more than the members of the NSDAP* were ever concerned that their leader was a subject of the Austrian Empire.

There will be no impact on the election. Why bother?


* That's the Nazi Party for the historically challenged.

Answer

How does one argue with a raving lunatic who grabs the slightest excuse to deny your right to live.

One does not.

Atlas Shrugged Part Two

My lack of God, what a mess.

The trailer was better then the film as a whole.

Where shall I begin?

Starting with the air chase and then flashing back to the beginning was clearly a mistake. The thing is I used the same start for a screenplay that I was working on. Darn.

Taking some liberties is a necessity on an adaptation to film. Having Jeff Allen already working for the railroad worked. The following changes would have also worked:

Thompson as President of the United States. Granted, like the current occupant of the office, he doesn't deserve the title. But using the proper title would have added an element of realism.

The Winston Tunnel Accident clearly needed changes. The last steam locomotive was taken out of commercial service in 1957. A switch failure was shown as a factor in the accident. This would have been a sufficient cause for the disaster.

CGI effects are now the current standard. But the quality of such effects should be higher than those used in video games.

I saw the first showing on Sunday morning at the Mall Of America theatre. There were only two other persons viewing it.

Thought Of The Day

While I normally avoid poetry as rule*, I will publish a poem on this site today.

This is a poem about Ho Chi Mihn by Nguyen Chi Thien, who spent nearly three decades imprisoned in Communist ruled Vietnam for having a mind:

Today May 19th

Today the 19th of May
In bed
I was about to write a poem to cuss Him out
The poetry started to smell like him
When I stopped.
For I thought
A shitty politician like him
Does not deserve
My sweating
To write poetry about
Even though it may be to cuss Him.
Even Marx
His fucking ancestor
Never did get a few lines from me!
So why bother?
Let the hacks with their prostituted pens
Comb his beard, pat his head, caress his arse!
So I went on to other business
The hell with Him!

Oh, and read this.

*Ayn Rand once said that Free Verse was lower than a free lunch.

Thought For The Day

Adult Muslims are not fit to act as parents.

For their own safety and their ultimate rationality the children of Muslims should be taken away and raised by rational adults in foster homes.

The sooner this is done the better for all of the littlest victims of Islam.

Pamela Geller explains why.

Alternate Universes

Got it from here.

UPDATE 2300 HRS CDT:

A bunch of bozoids are promising to leave the nation if The Big Zero loses the election.

Please, do so.

Photograph Of The Day

Today

I finished chapter eleven.

Passed the 20,000 word point.

Link Of The Day

There is a story going around that The Big Zero is a closet homosexual.

So What?

This wouldn't be a big deal if there weren't some murders to prevent the disclosure of this.

Reality cannot be concealed. Those who try should just give up.

Now.

Thought For The Day

I've been reading a lot of post debate commentary on a number of right wing blogs. One subject that dominates the commentary is the question of what drugs The Big Zero is using.

And before this I thought The Zero was high on ideology.

Progress

I just finished chapter ten.

And just passed 18,000 words.

Rant Of The Day

Let's start by quoting the current occupant of the White House:

"The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."

Really?

If I was a Christian I would say that Mohammad was one of the false messiahs predicted in the New Testament.

But I'm not a Christian. I'm an Objectivist.

If we accept the accounts written by Mohammad's earliest followers as the truth then it is very apparent that he committed serious crimes such as robbery, murder, and other acts that are not discussed outside of a lecture on the subject of the SS-Dirlewanger Brigade.

And Mohammad did so while claiming the sanction of the Magical Mystical Master in the sky.

A claim that any rational person must reject as total nonsense.

Apparently the current occupant of the White House believes that an honest discourse on the subject of Mohammad constitutes slander.

Really?

Contrary to what the current occupant of the White House may believe he is not a monarch and my not determine what the citizens of this (or any other) nation may discuss in public. In reality the Citizens of the United States are the sovereign authority. And as such have the right to publish and speak the truth, and to read and hear the truth, in order to carry out their obligation as the sovereign authority.

Those who do have a problem with this fact, or do not understand it, have no place in public office.

In this or any other nation.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Thought For The day

It's very easy to cause someone who takes himself seriously to become angry.

Don't.

Progress Report

I've finished chapter nine and passed 16,000 words of text on my novel.

Announcement

I finally gave in to temptation and tried to lurk on the Baen's Bar forums.

I've been banned.

Gosh, what a surprise.

Announcement

Today is Swear Like A Sailor Day.

Today's announcement is brought to by the NATO phonetic letters FOXTROT and UNIFORM.

What Can We Say?

Once again, it's Talk Like A Pirate Day.

Arrrr...

Progress Report

On my current novel.

I changed the scene breaks into chapter breaks. As a result what were three chapters are now seven chapters.

I finished chapter eight.

I'm now 138 words into chapter nine.

The system primary, the star around which everything orbited, gave off a red tinted light of variable brightness. It was the kind of light that hack writers on the mother planet who were very short on personal funds would write extremely long paragraphs on their extremely old manual typewriters in order to explain the effects of it on the landscape.

Demotivator Of The Day

Any Questions?

THOUGHT

Islam is an crime against Humanity.

The false prophet Mohammed commands those who submit to him to murder those who don't.

Therefore killing a muslim, any muslim, regardless of their age or other condition, is not a crime. It is an act in defense of the Human Race as a whole.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

A Message

This is for certain theist trash that may wander in from time to time.

The only place I've seen someone struck down by God is in a Monty Python movie.

But then I never had my brain mangled in a Catholic school.

Fact Of The Day

In his first act in office President Thomas Jefferson sent the United States Navy to the Mediterranean Sea to stomp out the Muslim pirates.

The vacuum presently occupying the Oval Office can't even do that.

Islam Delenda Est.

Announcement

Baen Books can shove it.

I will not do business with Baen Books. Ever.

A moderator on their forums posted this:

Regarding this block of instruction, had you bothered to read the appropriate documentation available for this station, you would have noted the sections regarding appropriate and inappropriate postings. You are a no-go at this station for initiating personal attacks and continued failure will result in your removal from this station.

James Cochrane
Bar Moderator

I responded:

Let's see.

A rational person is viciously attacked by someone who has clearly fallen for the longest running destructive and deadly scams in history in a clearly depraved manner..

You ignore it.

And when I respond to this attack you threaten to remove me from this forum?

Go ahead.

You can take this bar and your publishing house and shove it.

I will not buy another book from them nor will I submit a manuscript.

They want to behave as garbage then I will identify and treat them as garbage.

Post Of The Day

My lack of an imaginary overlord! That drooling idiot is still at it!

If there is one thing I've learned from real experience in the real world is that arguing with a drooling idiot is a complete waste of time. And I'm just too old for this excrement.

So I'm going to end this nonsense by reposting a short piece I wrote on the subject of imaginary overlords:

The Truth About Penguins In The Traveller Universe. (A Repost)

UPDATE 0640 CDT:

Of course Kratman had to get in a final shot.

By the way, just so you don't misunderstand, those answers and comments above aren't really generally directed at you, barring the one or two that were obviously directed at you. You don't have much value to me. I've insulted you and enjoyed insulting you, because you're a mindless moron. Beyond that...meh. No, they're directed to Drak and BT, who do have value, and to any others that may read them, who presumptively have some value. Any time one can point out to someone worthwhile what an evil, hypocritical, nasty and Nazi bitch Ayn Rand was, and how foolish her followers are - foolish where not evil (don't sweat it; you're just self righteous and stupid, but probably not competent or effective enough to arise to the level of evil) - that's worth doing.

So run along, little one; your drool buckets need changing.

Let's see...I treat reality as being real, therefore I'm a drooling idiot?

I oppose A, therefore I am A?

Just the sort of doublethink they teach in modern education.

Kratman should just go all the way and convert to Islam.

Baen Books was the intended publisher for my first pro novel. But as long as they are publishing the keyboard droppings of Kratman I may as well summit to another publisher.

Tor Books looks like a good candidate.

Or other suggestions.


Les

Thought For The Day.

I think I'm going to leave that hornet's nest I kicked over yesterday alone. Let Kratman stew in his own juices.

On the the plus side I managed to add a bit over 900 words to the main novel that I'm working on.

I'll just keep working on that.

Les

Quote Of The Day

While I was reading a discussion thread at Baen's Bar I ran across this keyboard dropping:

Ayn Rand was a arrogant, soulless, unethical, vicious, evil, and ultimately stupid monster.

-- LTC Tom Kratman, US Army Retired

This means that I won't bother to read any novels he wrote or make friends with this irrational walking piece of excrement.

Regardless of what one feels, THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH. I don't worship her at her (figurative) feet. But I have found her nonfiction work to be closest to my own experience of the real world. That is why I am an Objectivist. So that when someone denounces Rand in such appalling terms, they are denouncing me.

And it's been my experience that arguing with such individuals is as practical as providing medical treatment to the dead.

Given that his novels are published by Baen Books I am now wondering if my own literary output will ever pass muster with them.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Update 1705 CDT:

Apparently Comrade Podpolkovnik Kratman has read my denunciation:

You're really not worth any more effort than this. Get the fuck out.

No Problem. Bye.

WHoaaa.....

Update 1912 CDT:

Comrade Podpolkovnik Kratman wrote to another member of the forum:

That's okay, BT, I categorically forbid the animate piece of dog shit from reading my books. He, like other members of the cult that goes by the name of objectivism, is just too dogmatically stupid for the lessons to take.

Well, that will relieve me of any accusations of plagiarism on the part of Comrade Kratman.

Seriously, I tried to read an opening chapter of one of his novels on the free section of the Baen site. I found it unreadable. My worst fan fiction is better than his output. (I won't insult those who scribble out their novels in crayon by suggesting that he does so himself.)

But then I never really had any interest in Neo-Nazi war porn.

Update 2100 CDT:

Oh my! He's still at it. Talk about a serious premise check failure.

Obersturmbannführer Kratman said:

By the way, if you can't see the difference between a conservative and a communist, as your silly little comment suggests, then you really _do_ belong with Objectivism; an idiot philosophy for an idiot. It's a perfect match.

Dipshit.

Regardless of what they call themselves, a statist is a statist.

I could also say that it doesn't matter what color wig she is wearing, a whore is still a whore.

In monotheism (which according William F. Buckley, Jr. is the foundation of conservatism) man is the property of God and therefore must obey him.

But in reality God is a figment of the imagination who is spoken for by a self appointed spokesman.

In collectivism, man is the property of the the collective and must obey it.

But in reality the collective is a figment of the imagination who is spoken for by a self appointed spokesman.

So what is the difference?

Regardless of the exterior differences, a statist is still a statist. And a whore is still a whore.

I'm looking forward to seeing how deep this idiot digs himself in tomorrow.

My Thought For The Day

Anyone who believes himself to be infallible will believe anything and ultimately do anything, no matter how horrible.

Such a person is already in the failure mode and will do significant damage to himself and to others.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Quote Of The Day

“The Government is the only thing we all belong to.”

-- The Democratic National Committee, 2012 AD

The notion that the person is the property of the state, and may be used as a slave or killed as a diseased animal for disobedience, is the central social premise of totalitarianism.

The fundamental value of the parasites who create and make up the membership of the totalitarian movements is power over the productive. They must have power over the people who do real thought and real labor because without it they would die. The users must exercise force on the productive of else they will die off.

Because a human right is a restraint on the power of the state, all the Rights of Man, starting with the Right to Life, must be treated as null and void.

And we all know where this is going.

All over the world, especially in Europe and Asia, there are monuments to the depravity of the totalitarians. The remains of slave labor camps and extermination centers. Our planet is dotted with the mass graves of those who would not or could not be used by the users.

Even in the United States, along the Trail Of Tears, there are the graves of those Natives whose land was stolen and given to the slave owning elites by the Democrat Andrew Jackson. The Democrats continued to support the slave owning elites and to protect the practice of slavery. Even after the Civil War they created a terrorist arm, the Ku Klux Klan, to suppress and murder former slaves.

And then there is the still unpunished crime of Democrat William Clinton.

In my mind the title of Democrat has become synonymous with the term Murderer.

The Democratic Party in the United States has in effect become a totalitarian party, and like the National Socialists and Soviet Communists they must be identified and dealt with as such.

By nothing less than complete annihilation.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?

Quote Of The Day

It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing.

-- General George S. Patton, Jr.

Changes

I've changed the name of the blog. Somewhere in the process I've made some errors.

As part of a comment on a previous post Mark Urbin said:

Remember the petty vandalism the Clinton staffers did before G.W. Bush and his staff took over the White House? That is going to be nothing compared to what the looters in the Obama regime will do. Personally, I would have the silver inventoried Empress Michelle is allowed to leave the building.

It's not the petty looters that I'm worried about.

The fundamental value of the other side is power.

Without it they are effectively dead. Without it their purpose in life is effectively removed. Without power they are nothing.

The other side has shown their absolute contempt for our constitution and the rule of law. It appears that they will stop at nothing to obtain and retain power.

What I'm afraid of is that The Big Zero will simply refuse to step down when he loses the election. And that he will order the arrest and even the murder of those (Romney, Ryan, et al) who oppose him. It will be the American Night Of The Long Knives.

While part of the armed forces may follow their oath to defend the constitution, I would fully expect the local branches of their mafia (Democratic Party) and their enforcers (Cops) to follow orders to the letter.

This is going to be a bloody mess. And it will end with one side or the other as filling for a mass grave.

What are your questions on this block of instruction?